Peter Papathanasiou has been an internationally recognised research geneticist, working in the US, UK and Australia. His passion, however, is writing, and he's completed several professional development programs in Australia (Varuna) and the US (The New School), as well as earning a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of London.
'A unique migrant journey: Peter Papathanasiou has written a
beautiful memoir on family and identity.' George Megalogenis,
award-winning author of The Australian Moment
'Absorbing and flawlessly written, telling an ultimately uplifting
story about heredity, family and home.' Alison Moore, author of the
Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Lighthouse
'A beautifully written and incredibly moving book. The humanity,
love, loss, and the compelling search for identity shine out from
the pages. I loved it.' Kate Hamer, award-winning author of The
Girl in the Red Coat
'An engrossing account of two lives and how choices made years
previously can ricochet down through the generations. This
captivating memoir considers what it means to be a parent in the
widest sense.' Claire Fuller, award-winning author of Our Endless
Numbered Days
'Reveal a secret too soon and its meaning is lost on the listener;
reveal it too late and all that has been carefully built upon it
can fall in an instant . . . a richly moving and elegant memoir
that tracks between the open spaces of Australia and a small town
enclosed by mountains in northern Greece, Pete Papathanasiou writes
with powerful verve of the explosive secret concealed at the centre
of his life until he's already in his mid-twenties. Its sudden and
unsettling disclosure forces him to reconsider everything he
thought he knew about himself, his history and his heritage. What
follows is a beautiful and cathartic story of love and loss, deftly
charting the upheavals of the migrant experience and the raw
struggles and redemptive emotional depths of a family scattered
between two continents. The real revelation of his writing isn't
the unveiling of the secret, though, but rather his ability to
journey with unflinching honesty through a world that is both
seemingly the same and yet utterly changed for him. In this
poignant and illuminating search for understanding, he discovers
the deepest and most resolute of ties that bind human lives, and
has created a book equal in grace to the astonishing act of
kindness he uncovers at the very heart of his family.' Julian
Hoffman, award-winning author of The Small Heart of Things
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
