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'''I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under home arrest in a failed coup. I left before Russia and Ukraine became separate countries, before the KGB archives were opened, before the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune, before the word 'Gulag' appeared in textbooks. I left before Chechnya, before the mass renaming of cities and streets, before you could go into a shop and actually purchase the books of Brodsky, Pasternak and Nabokov. I left too early, I missed the whole point. I was not there when my generation was cornered by history."
'Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane. Splintered and scattered across the world, her generation has ended up inhabiting vastly different realities. Along with exploring the political and cultural fallout of a century of turmoil, Maria wanted to bring together the worlds of her mother and daughter - the different continents, histories and experiences they encompassed.
'Before they set off, Maria wistfully imagined her and Billie's hearts beating in unison as they travelled back to a past they could both understand, forging a nearly superhuman bond along the way. But, in Maria and Billie's case, the past was not simply another country, but one that no longer existed.
'Otherland is the story of a six-week trip traversing three generations, three lifetimes and three profoundly different but profoundly interconnected stories of mothers and daughters.' (From the publisher's website.)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Review : Otherland
2012
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— Appears in: Overland [Online] , January 2012;
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2010
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 3 no. 1 2010;
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
Off the Top Shelf
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 31 July 2010; (p. 24-25) The judges for the 2010 Age Book of the Year Awards provide a summary for the category for which they are responsible and comments on each shortlisted title. -
Clarification
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
A Fetching Way into Metamorphoses in Another Culture
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 May 2010; (p. 14)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography
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Shock of the Old
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
Cover Notes
2010
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 11 April 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
The Long Way Home
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 17 April 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
Journey to a Place That No Longer Exists
2010
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 May 2010; (p. 35)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
A Fetching Way into Metamorphoses in Another Culture
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 May 2010; (p. 14)
— Review of Otherland 2010 single work autobiography -
Clarification
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
Off the Top Shelf
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 31 July 2010; (p. 24-25) The judges for the 2010 Age Book of the Year Awards provide a summary for the category for which they are responsible and comments on each shortlisted title.
Awards
- 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Community Relations Commission Award
- 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
- 2010 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
- 2010 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Non-Fiction Prize
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cRussia,ccFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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cUkraine,ccFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,
- 1900-1999
- 2000s