![]() ![]() But this is not a memoir of their sporting days, although that is part of it. Poet Ellen van Neerven loves football and played as a striker as an 11-year-old with Stamford Rangers in Queensland. And so begins this exploration of family, the past and the present, memory, belonging and exile. I was the son of refugees, the grandson of a political prisoner”. The narrator’s grandfather was imprisoned by the communists in Vietnam for a decade, “it served as the anchor for my self image. Get it delivered every Friday.Īndre Dao has described Anam as a “fictionalised family history”, and it’s clear that this novel, which won the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award two years ago, has a lot of real family history in it. The Booklist is a weekly newsletter for book lovers from books editor Jason Steger. ![]() Here are 10 books coming next month that could keep you company. The cooler weather outside means coming in for a cosy time with a book to hand and some sort of warming drink within reach. May, what a delight - at last it’s really autumn, “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, as Keats put it in that famous Ode. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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