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Goldbloom Goldie - The Paperbark Shoe - Paperback
Goldbloom Goldie - The Paperbark Shoe - Paperback
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Description: Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the downfall of Mussolini had created a novel circumstance: prisoners who theoretically were no longer enemies. Many of these exiles were sent to work on isolated farms unguarded. The Paperbark Shoe is the unforgettable story of Gin Boyle an albino a classically trained pianist and a woman with a painful past. Disavowed by her wealthy stepfather her unlikely savior is the farmer Mr. Toad a little man with a taste for women's corsets. Together with their two children they weather the hardship of rural life and the mockery of their neighbors. But with the arrival of two Italian prisoners of war their lives are turned upside down. Thousands of miles from home Antonio and John find themselves on Mr. and Mrs. Toad's farm exiles in the company of exiles. The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far - reaching repercussions of war the subtle violence of displacement and what it means to live as a captive in enemy country and in one's own skin.
Title: The Paperbark Shoe
Author(s): Goldbloom Goldie
Publisher: Picador Usa
Barcode: 9780312674502
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/29/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the downfall of Mussolini had created a novel circumstance: prisoners who theoretically were no longer enemies. Many of these exiles were sent to work on isolated farms unguarded. The Paperbark Shoe is the unforgettable story of Gin Boyle an albino a classically trained pianist and a woman with a painful past. Disavowed by her wealthy stepfather her unlikely savior is the farmer Mr. Toad a little man with a taste for women's corsets. Together with their two children they weather the hardship of rural life and the mockery of their neighbors. But with the arrival of two Italian prisoners of war their lives are turned upside down. Thousands of miles from home Antonio and John find themselves on Mr. and Mrs. Toad's farm exiles in the company of exiles. The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far - reaching repercussions of war the subtle violence of displacement and what it means to live as a captive in enemy country and in one's own skin.
Title: The Paperbark Shoe
Author(s): Goldbloom Goldie
Publisher: Picador Usa
Barcode: 9780312674502
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/29/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
