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Book Review: Merlinda Bobis explores four generations of colonialism and violence in the Phillipines

Book Review: Merlinda Bobis explores four generations of colonialism and violence in the Phillipines
14.12.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Michelle Hamadache

Merlinda Bobis explores four generations of colonialism and violence in the Phillipines

Merlinda Bobis explores four generations of colonialism and violence in the Phillipines

In her latest novel, Merlinda Bobis envisions the past not as a grand narrative, but an organic process – entangled, living and mutable.

08.12.2025 30

The Conversation

Michelle Hamadache

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction

In Desolation, inexplicable elements, often in the form of coincidence, disrupt and distort causal chains. Dreams and imagination have a subversive...

26.08.2025 10

The Conversation

Michelle Hamadache

Exile, resistance and cactus pears: two Australian writers’ depictions of Palestinian life weave a powerful tapestry of stories

While Hasib Hourani’s Rock Flight and Samah Sabawi’s Cactus Pear for My Beloved are both books by Australian writers that speak of the Palestinian...

21.10.2024 1

The Conversation

Michelle Hamadache