New from Leah Kaminsky: Disorders of the Blood
With candour and grace, Leah Kaminsky focuses her physician’s gaze with scalpel-like precision, as she probes the secrets of the body’s terrain. Exploring the vulnerability of the human condition, she examines our fragile lives as we confront our own mortality – the weakness and the strength that emerge from the tumult of illness and decline, trauma and war.
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Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.
Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world – until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything.
Australia, 1938. A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages his own escape from Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he’s convinced he’s found his future with her. But a disturbing clue to her dark past threatens to unravel the delicate life she has built on top of the secrets left behind.
Shifting in time and place, Doll’s Eye weaves an intriguing story of love, loss and survival against a backdrop of war and displacement. Evocative and compelling, it brings into question the gap between what we see, and what we don’t.
Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer.
Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award (Vintage Australia 2015, Harper Perennial US 2016).
Her second novel, The Hollow Bones (Vintage) won the 2019 International Book Awards in both Literary Fiction & Historical Fiction categories and the 2019 Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction.
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The Hollow Bones
Literary FictionI’ve just read, with great pleasure, The Hollow Bones. What a triumph! It’s a truly wonderful evocation of a hard to comprehend time. TIM FLANNERY
From the embers of history, Kaminsky weaves a cracking tale of adventure, competing loyalties and the folly of sacrificing reason on the ideological altar. BRAM PRESSER