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The Watermill
Echoing the rhythms of the watermill—and ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia, to pre-and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, indigenous and present-day Melbourne—this quartet of stories are united by the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, statelessness and displacement, memory and forgetting, oppression and resistance. And ever-recurring journeys in search of belonging.
"I can think of no other writer who describes the aching heart of humanity with as much wisdom and compassion as Arnold Zable. 'The Watermill' brings gentle light to some dark places. Whatever ails the human race, Zable is surely part of the solution." Michael McGirr
"A tour de force." Rod Moss
"The four stories of The Watermill, by widely-loved novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate Arnold Zable, take place around the world – from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne. Zable’s compassionate, sensitive nonfiction unfolds with novelistic lyricism, as he explores the tides of history, memory, healing and belonging." The Wheeler Centre of Books and Writing