Title: Soraya the Storyteller Publisher: Lothian Books Age: 10 upwards Publication Date: May 2004 ISBN: 0 7344 0709 2 Cost: $14.95 Available: all bookshops, Amazon, see links
The black horse gallops faster. The ground is shaking, the dirt at my feet curls like a wave. We will not make it, I scream, and I wake before we can be crushed.
Soraya is a storyteller. The stories from Afghanistan keep her memories alive in Australia, as she starts a new life under the shadow of a Temporary Protection Visa. But it is the ebony horse which flies through her dreams that helps her find a strange land between remembering and forgetting, a land where she can be safe.
This is one of the most magical, uplifting, heart-rending stories I have read for a long time. A wonderful book.Jacinta di Mase
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Soraya
Written on 10/12/04 at 15:23:28 ACST by Frank
I'd like to see this incredible book in every school library and in every politians hands. After reading this how can people not be moved to compassion, while at the same time be taught a lesson in courage, strength and the joy of life. Rosanne Hawke you're a national treasure!
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