The telling time
By: P.J. McKay
Publisher: Polako Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780473520113
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction
Description: "Two young women, a generation apart, travel to opposite sides of the world on fraught journeys of self-discovery. 1958: Gabrijela yearns to escape the confines of bleak post-war Yugoslavia and her tiny fishing community, but never imagines she will be exiled to New Zealand - a new immigrant sent to housekeep for the mysterious and surly Roko, clutching a secret she dare not reveal.1989: Luisa, Gabrijela's daughter, departs on her own covert quest, determined to unpick the family's past. But not all decisions are equal and amid Yugoslavia's brewing civil unrest, Luisa's journey confronts her with culture shocks and dark encounters of her own"--Back cover.
Notes: Novel.