The Cuckoo’S Song

Award-winning author Amra Pajali? showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain. The Cuckoo's Song-Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since. Fragments-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war. Friends Forever-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two. School of Hardknocks-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life. Woman on Fire-A young girl lives with her mother's boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.

• | Author: Amra Pajalic
• | Publisher: Pishukin Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 131 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1922871036
• | ISBN-13: 9781922871039