Raven Mother (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781761170638)

Vendor: Jane Messer
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$34.99
$34.99
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Raven Mother

$34.99

Raven Mother

$34.99
Format: Paperback
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In a powerful work of memoir, history and biography, Jane Messer retraces the tragic and hopeful steps of her Jewish German grandmother, Bella. From pre-war Berlin to Tel Aviv to Melbourne, Messer follows Bella's journey and tries to understand her choices, including why she abandoned her son Michael in England before the war. Along the way, she speaks with historians in Germany, peace activists, scholars and refugees in Israel and Palestine, and, constantly, to her beloved father.

Shifting between the personal and the historical with lyrical precision, Raven Mother grapples with the grand scale of global events and the intimate struggles of family and memory.



Author: Jane Messer
ISBN-10: 1761170635
ISBN-13: 9781761170638
Publisher: Newsouth Pub.
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.32w x 0.66d
By Jane Messer
By Jane Messer
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Jane Messer is the accomplished writer of novels, short stories and essays, is a regular contributor to The Conversation, and is a former Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Macquarie University. She is the founder and director of StorySALOON, a live show and podcast dedicated to Australian short stories. As the daughter of a refugee, she finds herself compelled to write about fractured lives, marginal people and migration, and in Raven Mother takes on the complex task of exploring both Jewish and Palestinian histories of displacement and exile

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