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A Country Too Far
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A Country Too Far

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A tour de force of stunning fiction, memoir, poetry and essays. A Country Too Far is by turns thoughtful, fierce, evocative and lyrical, and always extraordinary powerful.

One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia’s finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme, confirming that the experience of seeking asylum - the journeys of escape from death, starvation, poverty or terror to an imagined paradise - is deeply embedded in our culture and personal histories.

A tour de force of stunning fiction, memoir, poetry and essays. A Country Too Far is by turns thoughtful, fierce, evocative and lyrical, and always extraordinary powerful.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Australia
Country
Australia
Date
13 June 2016
Pages
272
ISBN
9780143574132

A tour de force of stunning fiction, memoir, poetry and essays. A Country Too Far is by turns thoughtful, fierce, evocative and lyrical, and always extraordinary powerful.

One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia’s finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme, confirming that the experience of seeking asylum - the journeys of escape from death, starvation, poverty or terror to an imagined paradise - is deeply embedded in our culture and personal histories.

A tour de force of stunning fiction, memoir, poetry and essays. A Country Too Far is by turns thoughtful, fierce, evocative and lyrical, and always extraordinary powerful.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Australia
Country
Australia
Date
13 June 2016
Pages
272
ISBN
9780143574132