by Bob Randall (2003)
The autobiography of Bob Randall - singer, songwriter, activist and member of the Stolen Generation. Randall explains the Aboriginal principles of belief, linking Aboriginal spirituality with other world religions such as Buddhism.
Nanny Pat
Nanny Pat has always been the heart of her family, and her children and grandchildren regularly pitch up at her house for a cup of tea, a slice of her famous sausage plait and some wise advice. Now, with her trademark warmth and humour, she evokes the colourful East End world of her childhood.
Marie Cardinal
Une femme seule, quelque part dans le midi. Elle rêve à l'Algérie son pays natal perdu il y a longtemps. Elle revoit le port, le quai, le bateau sur lequel elle a embarqué, un bébé dans les bras, sans savoir qu'elle ne reviendrait plus jamais au pays de son enfance. Au fur et à mesure que se déroule la vie quotidienne de la narratrice éclatent à la surface de sa conscience des bulles de souvenirs. Telle la scène, bouleversante, de la mort du père. Elle a quatorze ans et connaît peu cet homme avec qui elle ne vivait pas. Au pied du cercueil où il repose, d'étranges pensées l'assaillent : est-il nu dans sa boîte? Quel homme, désormais pourrait lui donner autant d'amour qu'un père? ... Mais les échappées oniriques de la narratrice ne se bornent pas à l'enfance. D'autres scènes, d'autres hommes viennent la visiter sous sa tonnelle. -- Back cover.
Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher
"Challenging China brings together the voices of Chinese reporters, intellectuals, activists, and poets; their moving personal stories, memoirs, analyses, and reportage open a window into the struggle of people in China to speak out, to witness, to demand an accounting from those in power, and to look deeply and honestly at their country's problems."--Jacket.
Denise Chong
The ethos of family is dramatically portrayed by Denise Chong in this tale of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and the children who would be left behind, and of the author's own incredible discovery of those children six decades later. Here is a true story, woven from letters, photographs, and memories, with more twists and turns than any novel. It is a story of the lives of one family living on two different sides of the globe: in a village in South China before and after the Communists took power, and in the gritty Chinatowns on North America's west coast. The "at-home" wife would hold sacred the honor of the family; supporting her was the concubine who sacrificed her own family in working the tea houses abroad, in "Gold Mountain." In tow was her youngest daughter, the author's mother. It was she who unlocked the past for her daughter, whose curiosity about some old photographs ultimately reunited this family, who had been divided for most of this century.