Surviving war

Cafe Scheherazade / Arnold Zable. Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing 2001

'In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade.'  With this reader begins a journey from Kobe to Paris, from Vilna to Melbourne.  A compelling meditation  on memory and place, Cafe Scheherazade traces the stories of Avram and Masha, the cafe proprieters; Yossel stalking the streets of Warsaw and Shanghai, Laizer exiled to vast Siberian forests and gentle Zalman, searching for the moment when all journeys end. This book faithfully depicts jewish holocaust survivors whose lives reflect the courage of refugees everywhere.