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Salonika Burning by Gail Jones is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Voss Literary PrizeShortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, 2023Shortlisted, Best Designed Literary Fiction/Poetry Cover, Australian Book Design Awards, 2023Longlisted, ALS Gold Medal, 2023Longlisted, Margaret & Colin Roderick Literary Award, 2023Longlisted, ARA Historical Novel Prize, 2023Longlisted, Voss Literary Prize, 2023°°° Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies & other volunteers. Four of them—Stella, Olive, Grace & Stanley—are at the centre of Gail Jones's extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin & Olive King, & British painters Grace Pailthorpe & Stanley Spencer. In Jones's imagination these four lives intertwine & change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world.Immersive & gripping, Salonika Burning illuminates not only the devastation of war but also the vast social upheaval of the times. It shows Gail Jones to be at the height

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Author

Gail Jones

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922790538

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction