{"product_id":"raising-the-shadow-by-tom-petsinis","title":"‘Raising the Shadow’ by Tom Petsinis","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003eTom Petsinis’s first novel is a meditation on work, unemployment and how that affects a writing practice.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eIts protagonist moves through the precarious world of clerical work, while another figure, Senka, begins shaping his experiences into fiction. The interaction produces a doubled narrative in which lived reality and literary invention start being blurred, and the rest of the novel unwinds into this ordinary life, becoming material for somebody else’s imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003ePublished in 1992, \u003cem\u003eRaising the Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e is within that very 90's bit of Australian fiction deeply interested in bureaucracy, migration, labour and the indignities of institutional life, but Petsinis gives it a metafictional kink. These characters speculate about their fictional counterparts, writers revise reality, and unemployment becomes both material crisis and narrative possibility. Petsinis, himself a Greek-Macedonian migrant to Australia, would return to questions of migration and divided cultural identity in later novels; this was his first. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHill of Content, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Moderate shelf and edge wear, with rubbing, creasing and some curling to corners; pages lightly toned. Binding firm and internally clean. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46329356943443,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-17T112855.357.png?v=1789608550","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/raising-the-shadow-by-tom-petsinis","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}