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Matia / Emily Tsokos Purtill.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.P97 M38 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purtill, Emily Tsokos, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Australia--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Greeks--Australia--Fiction.
- Greeks.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Fate and fatalism--Fiction.
- Fate and fatalism.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Australian fiction.
- Perth (W.A.)--Fiction.
- Perth (W.A.).
- Greece--Fiction.
- Greece.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- A woman in my village gave me four prophecies...they have all come true, so far. Sia is a young Greek woman who has emigrated from Greece to Perth, Western Australia in 1945 for a better life. She carries with her four prophecies and four pieces of protective jewellery, matia, one for herself, her daughter, her granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. With a dooming prophecy hanging over each woman's head will their lives unfold as they want or are they chained to the fate that's been destined for them? Over four generations and three continents, linking back and forth over 125 years from Greece to Perth to New York and back to Greece, Emily Tsokos Purtill has weaved a story that is utterly captivating and deeply moving.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781760802905
- 1760802905
- OCLC:
- 1452979797
- Publisher Number:
- 90101670254
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