{"product_id":"2026600000018-secondhand-alien-son-signed","title":"Alien Son (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed         ,          price clipped\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed with inscription\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Previous owner's plate on front pastedown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810609017051,"sku":"2026600000018-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/526366b2-e890-46a4-a07d-fa2d4fa22c99.png?v=1779805876","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000018-secondhand-alien-son-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}