“No one wants to become a refugee. No one should have to endure this humiliating and arduous ordeal. Yet, millions do. Even one refugee forced to flee, one refugee forced to return to danger is one too many.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Message for World Refugee Day 2011

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Russian tales

The family frying pan / Bryce Courtenay. Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, 2006

Originally published as a serious of semi - linked short stories, The family frying pan was republished after some rewriting.
Mrs Moses is the only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, takes her cast-iron frying pan and flees. No ordinary frying pan this is The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. Travelling across Russia seeking freedom and safety Mrs Mose is joined by various fellow escapees. Using the fring pan she manages to feed her fellow refugees, and in return, each of the group tells a story around the campfire at night - stories of compassion and bravery, of human frailty and above all of hope.

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