Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013

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Join us for the Canberra Launch of
A Country Too Far

Professor Satendra Nandan will launch this important anthology of Australian writers writing about asylum seekers on Wednesday the 4th December at 6pm at Asia Bookroom.


Following Professor Satendra Nandan's launch, Rosie Scott who with Thomas Keneally, jointly edited A Country Too Far, will be available to answer questions. We have just heard that award winning author and contributor to A Country Too Far Sue Woolfe will also speak.

One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today.

In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia's finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme of the dispossessed, bringing a whole new perspective of depth and truthfulness to what has become a fraught, distorted war of words. This anthology confirms that the experience of seeking asylum – the journeys of escape from death, starvation, poverty or terror to an imagined paradise – is part of the Australian mindset and deeply embedded in our culture and personal histories.

A Country Too Far is a tour de force of stunning fiction, memoir, poetry and essays. Edited by award-winning writers Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally, and featuring contributors including Anna Funder, Christos Tsiolkas, Elliot Perlman, Gail Jones, Raimond Gaita, Les Murray, Rodney Hall and Geraldine Brooks, this rich anthology is by turns thoughtful, fierce, evocative, lyrical and moving, and always extraordinarily powerful.

A Country Too Far makes an indispensable contribution to the national debate.

This is a fundraising event. Gold Coin Donation entrance and all profits from book sales on the night will go to the Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation (see their website below).

When: 6pm Wednesday 4th of December, 2013

Where: Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1 - 3 Lawry Place, Macquarie. ACT

RSVP: By the 3rd of December by phoning 6251 5191 or Email Us