Close-Up Magic Tricks
This collection offers you a cleverly crafted mix of short stories and vignettes that capture life in its disquieting, heart-warming and always remarkable moments. You will relive the challenges faced by characters fated to explore the boundaries of their known worlds and histories to make sense of their unfolding lives.
There is the ten-year-old autistic chess player who has an epiphany on a voyage from Spain to Mexico in 1937, the Tamil pearl diver who risks his life to save his younger brother in 1709, the bullied South African schoolboy who takes his revenge ten years later, and the Italian Australian investigating his family tree who is surprised by an Asian ancestor – among many other characters experiencing love, grief, joy, despair, humour, regret and resolve. They’re lying in wait for you.