Alien Son (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Previous owner's plate on front pastedown.
A landmark work of Australian immigrant fiction, Alien Son chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Jewish boy navigating the tensions between his Eastern European immigrant family and the unfamiliar world of early twentieth-century Australia. Judah Waten presents a series of interconnected vignettes that illuminate the struggles of displacement, cultural identity, and the painful distance that grows between first-generation immigrants and their Australian-born children. The prose carries a quiet, melancholic warmth, capturing both the resilience and the longing of a community striving to belong in a new land. Widely regarded as a pioneering work in Australian multicultural literature, it remains a deeply humane portrait of the immigrant experience that resonates far beyond its specific time and place.
Author: Judah L. Waten
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Previous owner's plate on front pastedown.
A landmark work of Australian immigrant fiction, Alien Son chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Jewish boy navigating the tensions between his Eastern European immigrant family and the unfamiliar world of early twentieth-century Australia. Judah Waten presents a series of interconnected vignettes that illuminate the struggles of displacement, cultural identity, and the painful distance that grows between first-generation immigrants and their Australian-born children. The prose carries a quiet, melancholic warmth, capturing both the resilience and the longing of a community striving to belong in a new land. Widely regarded as a pioneering work in Australian multicultural literature, it remains a deeply humane portrait of the immigrant experience that resonates far beyond its specific time and place.