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Cafe Scheherazade

Text Classics
Author: Zable, Arnold
Publisher: Text Publishing

$12.95

A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable’s beloved novel…

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SKU: 9781922268587 Category: Product ID: 6756

Description

A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable’s beloved novel Cafe Scherazade is now a Text Classic.

‘In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade.’ Thus begins Arnold Zable’s haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that they and their fellow storytellers have to offer- of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe. And we learn how Avram and Masha met and fell in love and came to create their Melbourne cafe together.

In this mesmerising book, at once fable and history, fiction becomes a way of remaining faithful to the stories of cities strung across the globe like pearls on a string, to the maps and narratives etched in the minds of old men talking in a cafe by the sea.

Additional information

Weight 0.208 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 1.7 cm
ISBN

9781922268587

Subtitle

Text Classics

Author

Zable, Arnold

Publisher

Text Publishing

Release Date

Tuesday March 3rd, 2020

Format

Paperback / softback

Main content page count

256 Pages