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y separately published work icon Cactus Pear For My Beloved single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Cactus Pear For My Beloved
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.

'Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands.

'Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia.

'One of the gifts of Samah Sabawi's Baba is to remain open-hearted and optimistic.'  (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Sabawi describes this work as a 'post-memory' novel, blending fiction with historical events.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2024 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2024

      ISBN: 9781761344978
Form: audiobook

Works about this Work

Exile, Resistance and Cactus Pears : Two Australian Writers’ Depictions of Palestinian Life Weave a Powerful Tapestry of Stories Michelle Hamadache , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 October 2024;

— Review of Rock Flight Hasib Hourani , 2024 selected work poetry ; Cactus Pear For My Beloved Samah Sabawi , 2024 single work autobiography
Samah Sabawi Cactus Pear for My Beloved Monique Grbec , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21-27 September 2024;

— Review of Cactus Pear For My Beloved Samah Sabawi , 2024 single work autobiography
Samah Sabawi Cactus Pear for My Beloved Monique Grbec , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21-27 September 2024;

— Review of Cactus Pear For My Beloved Samah Sabawi , 2024 single work autobiography
Exile, Resistance and Cactus Pears : Two Australian Writers’ Depictions of Palestinian Life Weave a Powerful Tapestry of Stories Michelle Hamadache , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 October 2024;

— Review of Rock Flight Hasib Hourani , 2024 selected work poetry ; Cactus Pear For My Beloved Samah Sabawi , 2024 single work autobiography
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