Country Too Far edition by Rosie Scott Literature Fiction eBooks
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One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia's finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme of the dispossessed, bringing a whole new perspective of depth and truthfulness to what has become a fraught, distorted war of words. This anthology confirms that the experience of seeking asylum - the journeys of escape from death, starvation, poverty or terror to an imagined paradise - is part of the Australian mindset and deeply embedded in our culture and personal histories.
Country Too Far edition by Rosie Scott Literature Fiction eBooks
This anthology to which a number of top Australian writers have contributed is timely in highlighting the devastating effect of the asylum seeker policies of successive Australian governments that have vied with each other in a race to the bottom of the cesspool. It is heartening to see that such literary figures as Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Anna Funder, Raimond Gaita Les Murray and Christos Tolkas and many others have addressed the issue in differing but moving ways that bring home to the reader the cruelty and immorality of this behaviour. I felt proud of my countrymen and women in reading this work and commend it highly.Product details
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Country Too Far edition by Rosie Scott Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I really can't write a review of this book that could possibly do it any justice, other to say that anyone with half a thinking brain who lives in Australia (primarily), and New Zealand (only because it is the next landfall after Australia) should read it. The following link is by a reviewer (Australian) for The Guardian newspaper, and it says everything that I want to say, but so much better. I urge you to read it.
http//www.theguardian.com/books/australia-culture-blog/2013/oct/28/a-country-too-far-review-book-review
Other than the Aboriginies in Australia, every single person who lives in the countries of New Zealand and Australia migrated to these islands. The asylum seekers who are the subject of this anthology of writings are also seeking a better life. Their much publicised fates once, that is if, they reach the shores of Australia would make most of them wonder why they even bothered. All the contributors are well known Australian writers, with the exception of one who is well known in New Zealand, and they write a mix of fiction, poems and non-fiction mostly from the perpectives of the refugees themselves - men, women and children. There are also a few writers who have written stories from their own family history which, although not about the asylum seeker/boat people we see nowadays, are every bit as relevant as the current hopefuls.
This is a problem that will not go away. Australians burying their NIMBY heads in the sand are going to be creating more troubles for themselves. After all how hard can it be for a country of 23 million to treat with dignity and compassion a few thousand desperate migrants a year.
"A Country Too Far" is a broad anthology of writings around the issue of asylum seekers and Australia's horrible treatment of them. Over two dozen novelists, poets and other writers address the issue in a variety of forms - essays, fiction, memoirs and poems. Some deal very specifically with the issue of recent asylum seekers and how they have been and are being treated in Australia. Others deal more generally with the refugee experience.
The anthology as a whole is thought provoking and, at times, wrenching. It should leave any person with a sense of fairness and compassion bewildered, depressed and angry, and ready to scream "not in my name!". My one gripe with the book is the inclusion of a chapter of fiction which tells of a series of casual sexual encounters with a refugee in quite graphic detail; it adds little to the book, will offend some, and may render it unsuitable for younger readers, which is a shame as the book would otherwise be an excellent resource for high school students.
That aside, congratulations to those responsible for compiling the book. Although it will mostly preach to the converted, I hope by the range and reputation of the writers involved, that it will help change some minds on this issue.
With the exception of one chapter which seems quite irrelevant and distracts from the message of the book, 'A Country too Far' presents a useful and vivid contribution to a virtually non existing rational debate on asylum seekers. Would make a thought provoking Christmas gift for anyone who has problems with asylum seekers. Well done Tom Keneally! Thank you.
This anthology to which a number of top Australian writers have contributed is timely in highlighting the devastating effect of the asylum seeker policies of successive Australian governments that have vied with each other in a race to the bottom of the cesspool. It is heartening to see that such literary figures as Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Anna Funder, Raimond Gaita Les Murray and Christos Tolkas and many others have addressed the issue in differing but moving ways that bring home to the reader the cruelty and immorality of this behaviour. I felt proud of my countrymen and women in reading this work and commend it highly.
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