Invented lives

Goldsmith, Andrea 1950- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1947534904 : PAP
ISBN: 9781947534902 : PAP
ISBN: 9781925713589
ISBN: 192571358X
ISBN: 9781947534902
ISBN: 1947534904
ISBN: 9781912854820
ISBN: 1912854821
Physical Description: print
325 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Melbourne : Scribe Publications, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.:

"It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world the Soviet Block is in turmoil. Gorbachev has been in power for a year when twenty-four-year-old book illustrator, Galina Kogan, leaves Leningrad - forbidden ever to return. As a Jew she's inherited several generations worth of Russia's chronic anti-Semitism. As a Soviet citizen she is unprepared for Australia and its easy-going ways. Once settled in Melbourne, Galina is befriended by Sylvie and Leonard Morrow, and their adult son, Andrew. The Morrow marriage of thirty years balances on secrets. Leonard is a man with conflicted desires and passions, while Sylvie chafes against the confines of domestic life. Their son, Andrew, a successful mosaicist, is a deeply shy man. He is content with his life and work - until he finds himself increasingly drawn to Galina. While Galina grapples with the tumultuous demands that come with being an immigrant in Australia, her presence disrupts the lives of each of the Morrows. No one is left unchanged."--Publisher's description.