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buy once only the swallows were free online Twenty five years after she left her native land, the author, now an Australian, returns to visit her long lost half-brother, Tom. An erudite man cursed with a limp but blessed with insight. The years of separation stand like a wall of tangled weeds between them, but he eventually opens up. In a cosy room with red Persian carpets and photographs of his mother, whom he has never known, gentle Tom shares stories of his daily experience, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking but never self-pitying. Though the narrative is factual, the author uses her strong eye for detail and the techniques of fiction to create this engaging and thought-provoking account about ordinary people who have lived through war, fascism, communism and the transition to capitalism. The narrative delves into issues of identity, disability, emigration and family relationships against a background of the major political events of the time, from a perspective that challenges some accepted views. Through a gripping and beautifully written personal history, Gabrielle Gouch succeeds in creating a memoir as strange, rich and fascinating as fiction. This narrative moves beyond the daily experience of a family, it depicts neighbours and friends, colourful personalities who breathe daily experience into the times.
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