Description
•Arnold Zable delicately threads his story as he travels the world meeting with survivors of great hardship and trauma, and gives voice to stories of great pain and love. •These otherwise unheard stories of how we evolve, explores pressing and important topics such as dispossession, belonging and what it means to survive •In these delicately interwoven stories, Zable draws on his experiences in rural China, Cambodia, Eastern Europe and Australia. • Publicity campaign will focus on extracts in major weekend supplements such as Spectrum, Good Weekend and on online publications such as the Guardian, interviews on ABC Radio National and Radio NZ. •Widespread review coverage expected in Australian and NZ newspapers such as the Age and NZ Herald. Zable will be the guest of Australian Writers Festivals and appear in bookstores around Australia •Early reading copies available to the trade; significant budget for bookseller catalogues and newsletters; bookshop signing tour upon publication; strong print advertising campaign in popular literary and current affair publications such as Big Issue, Griffith Review, Australian Book Review and Monthly; giveaways and promotions with cultural organisations and publications such as Australian Jewish News, J-Wire, Liminal and Peril.