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Ghosts Like Us

By: Inez Baranay

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3 eras, 3 women: linked by Berlin, performance art, and a poem In the 1890s young poet Erika Kieler attends the most progressive artistic salon in Berlin to perform her poem inspired by a visitor from the capital of the Ottoman Empire. In 1989, just before the Wall comes down, punk artist Trudi Zahn performs her own version of the same poem in an East Berlin club. And in 2009 Lottie Hoffmann prepares to perform Trudi's work at a cabaret for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story explores the drive for women's authentic creativity and personal freedom, cross-cultural exchange, interpretations of history, artistic influence, and a universe in which ghosts appear.

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1329400607

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9781329400603

The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

By: Inez Baranay

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The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

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Three people travel to Bali for very different reasons. Marla is well read in Bali’s culture; she distrusts false ideologies, orientalism and tourism. To her surprise she finds the echoes of a golden age and a passionate lover. Nelson, a young woman from Sydney returns in the hope of reuniting with her Balinese boyfriend, but encounters the unexpected. Tyler, a New Yorker searching for a lost friend, enters a world of mystery and intrigue. All three are on the edge, unsure of whether they should stay in Bali any longer, but are increasingly drawn into the heart of this complex and alluring island. Through subtle storytelling and compelling characters, Inez Baranay unravels the exotic, ways of knowing and the culture of tourism, in one of the world’s favourite destinations.

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1921924381

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9781921924385

Neem Dreams

By: Inez Baranay

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Neem Dreams

By: Inez Baranay

Set in southern India in the mid 1990s. Four strangers are on quests related to India's neem tree. Meenakshi runs a village-based women's project. Pandora is an eco scientist looking for a story. Jade wants natural products for a New York store. Andy hopes to find a cure for HiV/AIDS. The neem has been used since ancient times for household, medicinal and agricultural purposes and now is the centre of the clash between tradition and modernisation. When first published in India in 2003 Neem Dreams was widely acclaimed for the accuracy of observation and the pitch perfect depiction of the various characters.

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1304765873

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Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea

By: Inez Baranay

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Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea

By: Inez Baranay

In 1992 the author left her inner city life in Sydney to take up a volunteer position working with and for women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She landed in the intersection of very old cultures with the very latest in western religion, mining and development philosophies. The opposition of the men in power, the extreme otherness of the culture and the isolation were the difficulties; the beauty and fascination of the place and new friendships found there were the joys. This new edition includes an Afterword about the writing and reception of the book, which was first published in 1992. More at http: //www.inezbaranay.com/?books=rascal-rain-a-year-in-papua-new-guine

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1304769623

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9781304769626

Turn Left at Venus

By: Inez Baranay

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Turn Left at Venus

By: Inez Baranay

They were two little girls on a very big boat. In the 1930s, Ada and Leyla meet as children on a boat bringing migrants from Old Europe to the New World. They talk of seeing kangaroos yet end up living miles apart from each other in suburban Sydney. Their separations are often lengthy but their friendship endures across continents and decades and is a thread in this haunting story of writing, relationships and ageing. Ada (A.L. Ligeti) becomes an author, searching for a Utopian world, exploring aspects of patriarchy and gender in her groundbreaking feminist science fiction novel called Turn Left at Venus. That novel and its sequels are celebrated and much discussed by generations of fans. Memory and imagination fold seamlessly into one another as Ada keeps moving on, from relationships and places, living in hotels and rental spaces in Kings Cross, San Francisco, Ubud and elsewhere. Baranay's emotionally resonant portrait of the solitary and artistic life, lived adventurously across space and time, triumphantly celebrates the singularity of being, of age, of imagination, and of the 'getting ready' for the ending that life demands. ‘A gripping treaty at the crossroads of fictive biography and speculative fiction about what it means to become old. Nothing is left untouched, unexplored: The life of the mind and the life of the body, inner space and outer space. It is a complex, magnificently written novel that replicates the way in which lived life and imagined life keep feeding each other.’ — Arianna Dagnino, author of The Afrikaaner and Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility

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192576043X

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9781925760439

7 Stories, 2 Novellas

By: Inez Baranay

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7 Stories, 2 Novellas

By: Inez Baranay

A collection of short stories, 7 Stories of Mystery, Romance and Fabulation, mostly previously published, which include stories of a vampire cousin, aliens at a women's gathering, a woman with a penis for a day, a lover both man and woman, Heathcliff appearing to a desiring woman. The 2 novellas of the 60s, previously published, tell of teenage girls in the 1960s, stories of, love, identity and protest, of revolutionary music, rebellion and experiment, of Sydney and Asia, of the spirit of the times and the promise of the times ahead. From a critically acclaimed writer, author of 11 other books.

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1312858796

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9781312858794

Always Hungry

By: Inez Baranay

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Always Hungry

By: Inez Baranay

Described in reviews as "refreshing, sophisticated, playful, beguiling, horrifying and sexy" this is a vampire story for literate adults, in a world of writers, cult figures and international travel. Yearning for the lands of the old gods, escaping the pressures of New York, controversial cultural commentator Marisa comes to Amsterdam in search of escape and inspiration. A fiery transsexual cult figure follows her intent on a showdown. A mysterious blonde beauty has waited centuries to be ready for this. The tenth book in Inez Baranay's lively and varied career, Always Hungry is an erotic entertainment about ambition, mortality and relationships, a social comedy with a chilling edge, with questions about the rationalisations we all make when our way of life is based on the suffering of others.

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1304686493

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9781304686497

With The Tiger

By: Inez Baranay

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With The Tiger

By: Inez Baranay

Australian teenager Larry Darrell goes on a backpacking trip to India and finds his life changed for ever. Back home he refuses the opportunities and privileges of his former life and breaks up with his fiancee Isabel. His travels seeking the meaning of chance and death take him to personal growth workshops, a fashionable ashram, the worlds of art and politics, a Buddhist monastery and an Indian saint. Meanwhile Isabel achieves wealth and status in marriage with Grey, a Queensland property developer. By the end of the 1980s they are bankrupt and disgraced. And Isabel will stop at nothing to get Larry back. Ten years later they meet again in Sydney, along with Isabel's camp, domineering uncle Elliott, their grieving, badly-behaved old friend Sophie, and Will Maugham, the playwright who narrates this story. With The Tiger is a contemporary take on the Somerset Maugham novel The Razor's Edge (1944), which popularised the idea of the Westerner's search for meaning in "spiritual India.

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1304722821

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Local Time a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life

By: Inez Baranay

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Local Time a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life

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One last look at Europe" - that was the idea behind a 3-month trip in 2006. The weather was always good and that 3 months led to a life of unanchored travels, for years moving among countries and continents. In Local Time: a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life New York, London, Bristol, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Barcelona all have a chapter devoted to them, and Rome has more. Other chapters explore themes like sexuality, Europe, identity among hybrids and hyphens, family secrets, the self fiction creates, ageing, beginnings, the history of friendships, and a life in which writing has been the centre. Known for her stylish provocative work the author has once more gone in new directions in this memoir.

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1329170415

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Neem Dreams

By: Inez Baranay

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Neem Dreams

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In southern India in the 1990s an English lawyer, an Australian feminist scientist, a buyer for a New York store and a young Indian woman are united by the mystic and pharmaceutical neem tree. The novel is about journeys, quests, globalisation, the clash of tradition and modernity and that intoxicating affinity of spirit we sometimes find in total strangers.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1419647121

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9781419647123

Rascal Rain

A Year in Papua New Guinea

By: Inez Baranay

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Rascal Rain

A Year in Papua New Guinea

By: Inez Baranay

Against the warnings of rape and brutality towards women and a "primitive" lifestyle, Inez Baranay went to Enga, a remote province in Papua New Guinea, to work as a volunteer for two years. She was to work with the Provincial Women's Council, as an advisor to the government on women's affairs, and set up educational programs for women. Her enthusiasm and warmth quickly endeared her to many locals, and she found herself drawn to the immense beauty of the highlands of Papua New Guinea." "But pitted against her were an unfamiliar culture given to the systematic unfair treatment of women, individuals who were hostile and suspicious, and the threat of crime and violence from Raskal gangs. There seemed to be no need for a volunteer in Enga. "The women here didn't want me to do anything...if they didn't want help, what was I doing here?...""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Angus & Robertson Publishers

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0207183716

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9780207183713

With The Tiger

By: Inez Baranay

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With The Tiger

By: Inez Baranay

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The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

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The Edge of Bali

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The Edge of Bali

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A tale of three people on the edge. Three very different tourists visiting Bali are on their way to a remote village where a trance dance is to take place. They are on the edge of meeting, on the edge of leaving Bali for ever. Three tourists, unknown to each other..." "Nelson is twenty, and only wants to party on at Kuta Beach among the pretty boys, magic mushrooms and all-night dance clubs. Marla is forty, on her way to Europe and is enchanted by the island with its golden past. Tyler is thirty, from New York, but in Bali, on a mission..." "The Edge of Bali examines the exotic, ways of knowing and the culture of tourism, in one of the world's favorite destinations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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HarperCollins

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0207168997

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Book's by Inez Baranay

Ghosts Like Us

Ghosts Like Us

The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

Neem Dreams

Neem Dreams

Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea

Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea

Turn Left at Venus

Turn Left at Venus

7 Stories, 2 Novellas

7 Stories, 2 Novellas

Always Hungry

Always Hungry

With The Tiger

With The Tiger

Local Time a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life

Local Time a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life

Neem Dreams

Neem Dreams

Rascal Rain

Rascal Rain

With The Tiger

With The Tiger

The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

The Edge of Bali

The Edge of Bali

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