The Same Light is a slim, sharp collection from Greek-Australian writer Vasso Kalamaras, one of the important early figures in Australian migrant and bilingual literature.

These stories move through settlement, memory, family, poverty, land, exile and the double-vision of living between Greece and Australia. A good one for readers interested in migrant writing, Western Australian literature, postwar Greek-Australian experience, small-press Australian fiction, and books where domestic detail quietly opens into history. Humpies, paddocks, family obligations, old countries, new light: the whole thing has that slightly brutal tenderness of people trying to survive without ever being allowed to call it survival.

First edition paperback. Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1989. 104 pp. ISBN 0949206563. Good used condition, with light shelf wear to cover; pages clean and binding sound.