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Anna Rosner Blay |
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Anna Rosner Blay |
About the author |
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Born in post-war Paris in 1947, Anna Rosner Blay emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1949 with her parents, who had been rescued from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler. Anna is a writer, editor and teacher of English and French at a private girls’ school in Melbourne. Her second book Sister, Sister was short-listed for the Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her latest book, Not Paradise, was published in May 2004. Anna is a member of Descendants of the Shoah Inc. (a second-generation group in Melbourne), the Intergenerational Dialogue group run by Jewish Care, and an on-line discussion among children of Holocaust survivors. She has three grown-up sons and three grandchildren.
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The Official Website of acclaimed author |
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LATEST RELEASE !
NOT PARADISE Four women’s journeys beyond survival
Not Paradise draws together the moving and revealing stories of four women who emerged from the Holocaust and strove to reconstruct their shattered lives on the opposite side of the globe, in Australia. The author explores their tenacity to hold on to life and keep moving forward – and entwines their stories with her own personal journey beyond the loss and despair of a broken marriage – to weave a compelling and fascinating enquiry into how we understand the past, where we find the courage and resilience to continue in the face of suffering and hardship, and how we discover a way to move forward, beyond trauma, to a life of hope and fulfilment.
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