'RANGING from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable’s quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever-recurring journeys in search of belonging.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Epigraph:
Improvement makes straight roads,
but the crooked roads without
improvement are roads of genius - William Blake
The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory. -Chinese proverb
'Arnold Zable opens his new book, The Watermill, with a Chinese proverb: “The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.” Chinese proverbs are usually read as profound and timeless truths, but this seems an odd one for the Melbourne writer to have chosen.' (Introduction)
'Arnold Zable finds resilience and inspiration among the survivors of extraordinary suffering.'
'Arnold Zable finds resilience and inspiration among the survivors of extraordinary suffering.'
'Arnold Zable opens his new book, The Watermill, with a Chinese proverb: “The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.” Chinese proverbs are usually read as profound and timeless truths, but this seems an odd one for the Melbourne writer to have chosen.' (Introduction)
