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ROSE ZWI

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should be directed to Spinifex Press

Speak the Truth, Laughing

ROSE ZWI

' it is Zwi's gift to elucidate the grand political movements of the century through their effects on the lived lives of the unexceptional ... Reading this collection is an enriching experience. Treat yourself to it' - Malcolm Hacksley, The National English Literary Museum

‘an unpretentious and accomplished collection which will find many appreciative readers’ – Deborah Stone, Australian Jewish News.

Speak the Truth, Laughing. is a wonderful collection of short stories by Sydney author Rose Zwi.

Rose Zwi is an internationally acclaimed writer, whose novels explore deeply human stories of life in conflict. Her prize-winning earlier novels, Safe Houses and Another Year in Africa revealed the complexity of life in South Africa under the apartheid regime. After her move to Sydney in 1988, Rose began investigating her family history, which resulted in Last Walk in Naryshkin Park (short listed for the NSW Premier’s literary prize for general history), a moving historical account of the massacre of Jews in Lithuania in 1941, shortly after her family fled. Rose Zwi’s new book Speak the Truth, Laughing is a joyous collection of stories bringing together Australian and South African lives.

"...she is first and foremost a storyteller... It is a tribute to Zwi's skills as a writer that she can involve her readers in this tragic story." - The Evening Post

"Rose Zwi's book is brilliantly written ... She does not seek our sympathy, only our understanding."
- Otago Daily Times

. . . a well-written and painstaking account of the extermination of her family and culture, in the context of the present. Zwi succeeds in creating an intimate portrait out of the mass graves, of which Naryshkin Park is but one of thousands littered across Europe. – Frank Campbell, The Australian

Last Walk in Naryshkin Park tells the story of Rose Zwi's forebears who were Lithuanian Jews caught up in the sweeping history of the first half of the century in Europe.

The strength of Last Walk lies in the impeccably detailed piecing together of the Zhager story . . . the writing is fluent, the dialogue engaging . . . Yehuda Svoray, – The Australian Jewish News

Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is translated in Mandarin
Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is translated in Spanish
Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is translated in German

Rose Zwi has three other books published by Spinifex Press:

Safe Houses

Another Year in Africa

Last Walk in Naryshin Park

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