A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable's beloved novel Cafe Scherazade is now a Text Classic.
Arnold Zable is a highly acclaimed novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate. His works include Scraps of Heaven, Violin Lessons, The Fighter, which was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award and a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and his most recent work The Watermill. Zable lives in Melbourne.
‘All great stories, says Zable, must have both beauty and terror.
“A story which has only terror adds to the darkness. A story which
has only beauty cannot be true.”’
*Age*
‘Cafe Scheherazade…transcends the distinction between fiction and
non-fiction.... lyrical … poetic’
*Ivor Indyk, Sydney Morning Herald*
‘ a homage… to the power of story telling as well as a meditation
on displacement and its aftermath.’
*Canberra Times*
‘Stories are delicate things, attached to people, mutable and
ephemeral. Carrying them on entails a certain responsibility. In
this sense, Zable relinquishes the role of author and becomes a
scribe for a community whose stories might otherwise be lost.’
*Australian Review of Books*
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