{"product_id":"between-two-worlds-by-zeny-giles","title":"'Between Two Worlds' by Zeny Giles","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"LR5Y_W_content markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003eMaria leaves the Greek island of Castellorizo with her children to join her husband in Australia, entering a country whose ordinary, seems largely inaccessible to them.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eWithin are children confronting Australian classrooms without English, adults trying to reproduce home inside unfamiliar surroundings, and a family discovering that relocation produces neither a clean break with the past nor an uncomplicated new beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003ePublished in 1981, and in both Greek and English, \u003cem\u003eBetween Two Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e was Zeny Giles’s first novel and one of the earlier works by a Greek-Australian woman to place migrant experience at the centre of Australian fiction. Giles writes very closely about the embarrassment of not understanding, the pull of inherited customs, homesickness, generational difference and the unstable feeling of belonging simultaneously to two places and completely to neither. Later criticism of Giles’s work has situated the novel within the emergence of Greek-Australian migrant writing, particularly its treatment of cultural conflict, alienation and identity. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition \/ Condition: Saturday Centre Books, Cammeray, NSW, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Moderate shelf wear and handling to covers, with some rubbing, marking and age-toning; internally clean and firmly bound. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46362902265939,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-18T165600.858.png?v=1789714652","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/between-two-worlds-by-zeny-giles","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}