From Odessa To Odessa: The Journey Of An Australian Writer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A life lived between two worlds — one the fading imperial port city of his birth, the other the sun-scorched continent he would come to call home — From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer is the compelling memoir of Judah Waten, one of Australia's most significant Jewish-immigrant voices. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, and raised amid the turbulence of early twentieth-century migration, Waten chronicles his passage to Australia and the long, tenacious effort to forge an identity as a writer in a land still discovering its own literary culture. With candour and wit, he presents the rich interior life of an outsider-turned-insider, mapping the personal and political landscapes that shaped both his art and his conscience. Waten writes with the authority of a man who has witnessed history at close quarters — revolution, displacement, and the slow, sometimes painful process of belonging — and his prose carries the warmth of lived experience rather than retrospective sentiment. As one of the pioneering figures of Australian working-class and migrant literature, his reflections illuminate the broader story of multicultural Australia before that term had even entered the national conversation. From Odessa to Odessa ultimately asks what it means to carry two homelands in a single heart, and leaves the reader pondering whether a writer ever truly arrives — or whether the journey itself is the only destination.
Author: Judah Waten
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Cheshire.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A life lived between two worlds — one the fading imperial port city of his birth, the other the sun-scorched continent he would come to call home — From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer is the compelling memoir of Judah Waten, one of Australia's most significant Jewish-immigrant voices. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, and raised amid the turbulence of early twentieth-century migration, Waten chronicles his passage to Australia and the long, tenacious effort to forge an identity as a writer in a land still discovering its own literary culture. With candour and wit, he presents the rich interior life of an outsider-turned-insider, mapping the personal and political landscapes that shaped both his art and his conscience. Waten writes with the authority of a man who has witnessed history at close quarters — revolution, displacement, and the slow, sometimes painful process of belonging — and his prose carries the warmth of lived experience rather than retrospective sentiment. As one of the pioneering figures of Australian working-class and migrant literature, his reflections illuminate the broader story of multicultural Australia before that term had even entered the national conversation. From Odessa to Odessa ultimately asks what it means to carry two homelands in a single heart, and leaves the reader pondering whether a writer ever truly arrives — or whether the journey itself is the only destination.