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9781921518089
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Yeldham, Peter
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A distant shore / / Peter Yeldham
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Camberwell, Vic. ::
2009 Michael Joseph,,
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399 pages ; : 23 cm. ;
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SAGAS. AUSTRALIAN. Katerina arrives from Cyprus by ship as a six-year-old in the late 1950s to meet her father, who has travelled ahead to begin a better life in a distant land. Her young, flighty mother abandons Katerina on the ship when they dock in Sydney, and the young girl faces a strange and sometimes hostile new country with her depressed and taciturn father. Katerina grows into a beautiful and intelligent young woman, renames herself Kate, and she is swept into a passionate but ultimately heartbreaking love affair. She unexpectedly finds herself as a single mother with a baby girl, but her strength and determination to make a life in Australia drive her on. This poignant and stirring saga about justice, courage and enduring love will move and inspire all readers.
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"Katerina arrives in Sydney by ship as a six-year-old in the 1950s, a bewildered newcomer met by her father, whom she barely remembers, and abandoned by her impulsive and flighty mother. She faces a strange and often hostile new country as she and her father struggle to be accepted. Growing into a beautiful and intelligent young woman, Katerina renames herself Kate and makes the Northern Beaches of Sydney home. At the age of seventeen, while the Vietnam War rages and protest marches fill Australian streets, she is swept into a passionate love affair. Life for Kate brings both joy and tragedy. Inspired by her own experience as a child, she becomes a legal advocate for displaced persons and is forced to confront questions of life and death, freedom and captivity - choices that will change her life forever..."--Publisher description.
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Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
Australian authors -- Fiction
Australian fiction
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