Pomegranate and Fig by Zaheda Ghani Book Launch
Thu, 09 June
|Better Read Than Dead & Zoom
Join Zaheda Ghani in conversation with Emily Maguire to celebrate the release of Pomegranate and Fig.
Time & Location
09 June 2022, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEST
Better Read Than Dead & Zoom, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
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About The Event
About the book:
Taking us from Afghanistan to Australia, this is an evocative and beautifully written debut novel about tradition, family, war and displacement. Shortlisted for the 2018 Richell Prize it heralds an exciting new Australian voice.
Tracing the lives of three young people, Henna, her brother Hamid, and a man who will become her husband, Rahim, this lyrical and evocative story reveals the political entanglements and family dynamics that are heightened and shattered by conflict.
Taking us from the streets of Herat in the 1970s, invaded by Soviet forces, to India in the 1980s and then to the suburbs of Sydney, Pomegranate & Fig vividly illuminates the disruption, displacement and tragedy that war unleashes.
About the author:
Zaheda Ghani and her family arrived in Australia from Afghanistan as refugees in the 1980s. At nine years old Zaheda, also known as Zoe, handwrote her first novel using a HB pencil,…
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