The Fig TreeFrom the best-selling author of Cafe Scheherazade comes this tender book of haunting true stories, filled with memorable people. Zable writes about his own and his wife's family in Australia and Europe, about the lives of Jewish and Greek immigrants to Australia, about refugees and wanderers, actors, singers and poets. |
Contents
Telling Tales | 1 |
Singing Eternity | 11 |
Dancing towards the End | 68 |
Copyright | |
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