Author: Virginia Moschella Publisher: BalboaPress ISBN: 1452588430 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Growing Up Italian-Australian is a collection of funny tales that has no qualms about parodying my Nonni, my childhood, Sicilian morals, and archaic Sicilian traditions in contemporary Australian society. These comical parodies are dedicated to my Nonna who turned ninety and to the memory of my Nonno.
Author: Joanne Travaglia Publisher: ISBN: 9780730589099 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 212
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Collection of personal essays describing experiences of childhood and adolescence. Tells of the pleasures and pains of growing up within two cultures, and the difficulties of coming to terms with cultural differences. Contributors include Anna Maria Dell'oso, Rita Price, Diana Cavuoto and Sonia Cousins.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780994202437 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Italians love their food, and indeed they love their pasta. Unlike the wit and humor of spaghetti westerns, here is a little book of spaghetti tales about Nonna and her views on life!
Author: Moschella Publisher: ISBN: 9780994202413 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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You don't need to be crazy to be Italian, Nonna will train you! This is the 2nd book in the series, "Growing Up Italian Australian." The daily conversations between Nonna and Nonno get even more interesting! Written as a parody, this lite comedy edition is about the trials and tribulations of growing up Italian Australian. It's so funny that you will keep on reading it over and over again, and like a good tomato sauce you will keep on coming back for more!
Author: Anita Heiss Publisher: Black Inc. ISBN: 1743820429 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart – sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect. This groundbreaking collection will enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today. Contributors include: Tony Birch, Deborah Cheetham, Adam Goodes, Terri Janke, Patrick Johnson, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Latimore, Celeste Liddle, Amy McQuire, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Miranda Tapsell, Jared Thomas, Aileen Walsh, Alexis West, Tara June Winch, and many, many more. Winner, Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a mosaic, its more than 50 tiles – short personal essays with unique patterns, shapes, colours and textures – coming together to form a powerful portrait of resilience.’ —The Saturday Paper ‘... provides a diverse snapshot of Indigenous Australia from a much needed Aboriginal perspective.’ —The Saturday Age
Author: Zoe Boccabella Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 0733329543 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 26
Book Description
Zoe grew up in Brisbane in the 70s and 80s trying to be like everyone else, but never quite shaking the feeling of being half and half - half Australian, half mezza italiana. Zoe then travels to Italy and stays in the house that has belonged to her family for centuries.
Author: Melina Marchetta Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 145962128X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, and in her final year of school. Dealing with her mum and the ways of her Nonna are daunting enough as she prepares for her exams. But Josie is about to discover real life gets in the way of her carefully-made plans. Winner of Children's Book Council Queensland BILBY Awards: Older Reader 2000.
Author: Iris Murdoch Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 145320072X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 133
Book Description
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, Edmund Narraway has returned to his childhood home—for the funeral of his mother. The visit rekindles feelings of affection and nostalgia—but also triggers a resurgence of the tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edmund once again becomes entangled in his family’s web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos, in this compelling story of reunion and coming apart from Iris Murdoch, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).
Author: Alice Pung Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458798682 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner - table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great - grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well - known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat - Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.
Author: Lisa Clifford Publisher: Pan Australia ISBN: 1742625177 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
'I know this is my final leaving because it's so different from my many other leavings. This time, I actually want Paolo to find someone else-perhaps a lovely Florentine girl who he can marry, someone who will make him happy by giving him children and a family of his own. He deserves it after waiting for more than a decade for me to make up my mind...' Lisa Clifford was sixteen when she arrived in Florence for the first time, keen to experience life beyond her Australian convent-school and work out what she wanted to do with her future. Falling in love with a local called Paolo was not part of the plan... The Promise is the story of Lisa's love affair with Paolo, and of her love for Florence and the Tuscan mountains-the landscapes, the people and the food. But far from settling into a contented life in Italy, Lisa soon realised that being an independent and ambitious Australian girl made it difficult to fit in with the age-old traditions of an Italian family. She was torn between her desire to stay with Paolo, and her need to return home-to her family, to the relaxed Australian way of a life, and to a career. Should she stay, or should she go? Written with humour and passion, The Promise is about loss and heartache and growing up. Above all, it is a story that proves love does find a way-and that some promises are made to be broken.
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