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Give Us This Day
Wisniewska Brow
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Description for Give Us This Day
Paperback. In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. BIC Classification: BGA; BM; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. Seventy years later, and no closer to a longed-for Polish homecoming, Stefan's New Zealand-born daughter revisits his past. What is the burden her father has carried all these years? And why is he unable - or unwilling - to let it go? With an aging father and ... Read more
In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. Seventy years later, and no closer to a longed-for Polish homecoming, Stefan's New Zealand-born daughter revisits his past. What is the burden her father has carried all these years? And why is he unable - or unwilling - to let it go? With an aging father and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9781776560509
SKU
V9781776560509
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Ref
99-3
About Wisniewska Brow
Helena Wisniewska Brow is a Wellington-based writer and former journalist, and the 2013 recipient of the Adam Prize in Creative Writing. After completing two short creative writing courses at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009 and 2010, she gave up her work in public sector communications to tackle the 2013 Master of Arts in Creative Writing and to ... Read more
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