Salonika burning
- Bib ID:
- 8681784
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jones, Gail, 1955-
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : The Text Publishing Company, 2022
- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2022
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
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- 1922791105
- 9781922791108
- Summary:
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Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them--Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley--are at the centre of Gail Jones's extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones's imagination these four lives intertwine and change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world. Immersive and gripping, Salonika Burning illuminates not only the devastation of war but also the vast social upheaval of the times. It shows Gail Jones to be at the height of her powers. Gail Jones is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. She is the author of two short-story collections and nine novels, and her work has been translated into several languages. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Age Book of the Year, the South Australian Premier's Award, the ALS Gold Medal and the Kibble Award, and has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the International Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. Originally from Western Australia, she now lives in Sydney. 'Gail Jones is a thoughtful, accomplished writer whose work speaks for itself...Praised for her precise, incisive observations, Jones's writing frequently offers nuanced reflections on the cultural state of Australia as well as quiet revelations about the lives of her characters. Our Shadows is no exception...written like the wave that haunts its imaginative landscape, ebbing and flowing from past generations to the present and back again.' Guardian on Our Shadows.
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Disasters -- Greece -- Thessalonikē -- Fiction
- Great Fire, Thessalonikē, Greece, 1917 -- Fiction
- Disasters
- Fiction - General
- Fiction / Historical / World War I
- Historical fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Thessalonikē (Greece) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Greece -- Thessalonikē
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- Text Publishing
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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