A Country Too Far
- Published: 23 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781743481158
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
'A treat for readers who are given access to a wide range of voices and approaches.' Australian Bookseller+Publisher
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'Powerful and impassioned writing from some of Australia's best-known writers.' Newtown Review of Books
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'Thoughtfully and beautifully expressed ideas and views on the complexities of the refugee issue.' InStyle
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'I don't think I've seen a more impressive collection of Australian writers in a single book.' Stephen Romei, The Australian
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'Constitutes an important contribution to a great moral issue of our time . . . There is in these contributions a palpable sense of the writer's higher duties; to truth-telling and bearing witness, and to the better lights of human nature, but not at the expense of art. . . . There is a passion about the book, and a moral, emotional and artistic synergy that makes for deeply satisfying reading. It is as if the contributors have themselves felt dispossessed, not of their land, but of the idea of their own country, and have seized the opportunity to reclaim it. . . . A fine book like A Country Too Far, one that inspires both compassion and anger, can change the way people think and act, and encourage them to expect more from themselves and their nation.' Sydney Morning Herald
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'A Country Too Far represents the varied and vibrant voice of writers speaking out as Australia contravenes its obligations to refugees. Its stories, poems, memoirs and essays collect their work into an eloquent refusal of silence in the face of, as JohnTranter writes: 'this/ fetch of disparate peoples/ assigned to come possessionless into massive/ light '.' Weekend Australian
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'A Country Too Far, co-edited by Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally, is a timely attempt to set the record straight about asylum seekers in Australia, to counter the negative media propaganda and to protest at the government's treatment of them. Featuring some of Australia's finest writers, it is an immensely readable, humane collection of fiction, memoir, poetry and essays.' Huffington Post
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