The Bread with Seven Crusts

Susan Temby

ISBN 10: 0732274265 / ISBN 13: 9780732274269

Published by Flamingo / HarperCollins, 2002

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[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Susan Temby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Three Italian prisoners of war serve their time on a farm in WA, but when one of the family returns home from the front, things don't go smoothly.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bread with Seven Crusts
• Publisher: Flamingo / HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0732274265
• ISBN 13: 9780732274269
• Binding: Paperback
• Book Type: Paperback

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Synopsis

'In this wise, compassionate novel.temby explores the antagonisms, the collisions of culture, and the events that transform' - Glenda Adams. In the autumn of 1943 Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian prisoner of war, is dropped into a small rural outpost on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt. He has never seen a place so colourless and flat. He has never met anyone like Max Nash, the young and struggling owner of the farm. the Nashes slowly accept Giuseppe - or Joe, as they call him - into their home, but he discovers there are limits. Max's sister, Eddy, back from nursing Australian soldiers overseas, bitterly resents 'the enemy' eating at her family's table. the enforced isolation and intimacy of the farm gradually push Eddy and Giuseppe into an uneasy truce. As the months pass Giuseppe's feelings for the prickly young woman grow stronger, bringing him into conflict with not only the family and the community, but also with Hal, a neighbour and family friend.