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God Forgets About the Poor

God Forgets About the Poor

by Peter Polites
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/08/2023

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I will tell you why you should draft my story. Because migrant stories are broken. Some parts in a village where we washed our clothing with soot. Some parts in big cities working in factories. How we starved for food in Greece and starved for Greece in Australia.

You don’t know the first thing about me. A son can never see his mother as a woman. You will only see me in relation to you. I have had a thousand lives before you were even a thought. Hospitalised as a child for an entire year. Living as an adult without family in Athens when the colonels took control.

Start when I was born. Describe the village and how beautiful it was. On the side of a mountain but in the middle of a forest. If we walked to a certain point on the edge, we could look over the valley and see rain clouds coming. Sometimes we would see a cat on a roof, we read that as a warning of a storm. When we looked down, we saw the dirt, which was just as rich as the sky. My island, your island, our island.

Sometimes I think God forgot about us because we were poor.

A stunning new novel from the author of Down the Hume and The Pillars, God Forgets About the Poor is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is as important as any ever told.

ISBN:
9781761151644
9781761151644
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ultimo Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
234.01x153.01mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Peter Polites

Peter Polites is a writer of Greek descent from Western Sydney. As part of the Sweatshop writers collective, Peter has written and performed pieces all over Australia.

Alongside SMH Best Young Novelists Luke Carman and Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Polites wrote and performed Three Jerks a spoken word piece about the Cronulla riots to sellout crowds in Sydney and Melbourne.

He has recently been commissioned to write a play about the migrant experience in Western Sydney for Sydney Festival, to be performed in 2017. Down The Hume is his first novel.

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