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Books by Eva Sallis
  | | Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass(1st Edition) The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Routledge Studies in Arabic and Middle-eastern Literatures) by Eva Sallis Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-59553-7, ISBN: 0-415-59553-3 "The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature." |
 | | The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2006 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-74114-600-4, ISBN: 1-74114-600-3 "As twelve-year-old Dhurgham As-Samarra’i waits at the mosque where his family was supposed to meet if separated during their attempt to flee Baghdad, he realizes that no one else is coming to meet him. Following Dhurgham, as he builds a new life for himself with no homeland, family, or hope for the future, this searing and honest novel about separation, journey, and justice probes, questions, illuminates, and humanizes important moral a ..." |
 | | Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures) by Eva Sallis, Eva Hornung Hardcover, 170 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7007-1099-7, ISBN: 0-7007-1099-X "Like the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, the Hazar Afsana was a translation from a different culture; it was also readily and maybe even immediately appropriated and adapted; there is no reason to suppose tales to have received faithful or scholarly treatment; it was very quickly imitated and transposed and supplemented with Arab stories; its name was changed; and, finally, it was enormously popular while not receiving full or assu ..." |
 | | Mahjar (1ST EDITION PAPERBACK) by Eva K. Sallis, Eva Hornung Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2005 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-74114-071-2, ISBN: 1-74114-071-4 "Vibrating with life and woven with evocative Arabic fables, these stories are about the differences between Lebanese and Australian culture: between parents and children, new lives and old." |
 | | The City of Sealions by Eva Sallis Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-86508-617-0, ISBN: 1-86508-617-7 "Issues of self-discovery, Muslim culture, and the mother–daughter relationship are explored in this beautifully crafted novel." |
 | | Fire Fire (Paperback) by Eva Sallis Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2004 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-74114-352-2, ISBN: 1-74114-352-7 |
 | | No Place Like Home(1st Edition) by Sonja Dechian, Jenni Devereux, Heather Millar, Eva Sallis Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2006 by Wakefield Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86254-686-8, ISBN: 1-86254-686-X "Australian Stories by Young Writers Aged 8-21 Years Sonja Dechian, Jenni Devereux, Heather Millar, Eva Sallis ... 1 was supposed to be in Australia on the 26th of March and, since the bombing of Yugoslavia had begun the day after that, all flights had been cancelled and there was no way possible for my family and me to leave the country. ... At around midday, the warning sirens began to wail and they sounded like screams of the poo ..." |
 | | Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' by Eva Sallis 170 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-81752-6, ISBN: 1-136-81752-2 "The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' Eva Sallis ... Such legends represent the advertisements and the marketing of the tales on a popular level, while at the same time defending them against the charge of frivolity.5 The preface to the entire Nights collection operates on a similar advertising level, for it ... Beaumont discusses the use of a preface as a disguise for fiction: a 'false face' by which 'the alien seeks ..." |
 | | Dark Dreams(16th Edition) Australian refugee stories by Sonja Dechian Sallis, Heather Millar, Eva Sallis Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2012 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-4540-0, ISBN: 1-4596-4540-5 "Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. This book will have a a key role to play ..." |
 | | The City of Sealions by Eva Sallis 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-74115-131-2, ISBN: 1-74115-131-7 "A beautifully crafted novel of self discovery - it is through Lian's loss of identity in a confrontingly foreign culture that she is able to find compassion for her Vietnamese mother's difficult life and an understanding of their ..." |
 | | Dark Dreams by Sonja Dechian, Eva Sallis, Heather Millar, Heather L. Miller Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Wakefield Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86254-629-5, ISBN: 1-86254-629-0 "Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. This book will have a a key role to play ..." |
 | | Fire Fire by Eva Sallis Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-3874-7, ISBN: 1-4596-3874-3 |
 | | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Ser. Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass : The Metamorphosis of the 'thousand and One Nights' by Eva Sallis 170 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-81745-8, ISBN: 1-136-81745-X "It is not, however, a faithful transcription of its sources (Mahdi, Muqaddima 15). The first major, complete edition is the Bulaq, published in 1835/ 1251, possibly based on a single Egyptian MS (Irwin, Companion 44), although its language has at some point gone through a process of refinement and correction. It contains one thousand and one nights. It is followed by the Macnaghten, or Calcutta II, in 1839—42/ 1255—5 8, collated wi ..." |
 | | A Revealed Life Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir [Paperback]... by Julianne Schultz, David Malouf, Marion Halligan, Nick Earles, Matthew Condon, Eva Sallis, Anna Maria Dell'oso, Not Stated, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2007 by Australian Broadcasting Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-7333-2123-8, ISBN: 0-7333-2123-2 ""Stories from David Malouf, Marion Halligan, Nick Earls, Matthew Condon, Eva Sallis, Anna Maria dell'Oso and many more of Australia's most established and promising writers"--Front cover" |
 | | The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis 252 Pages, Published 2005 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-74115-649-2, ISBN: 1-74115-649-1 "This is the story of Dhurgham, a young Iraqi who has lost everything. A powerful, exquisitely written novel that gives a human face to the experiences of exile and migration." |
 | | The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis Published 2005 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-0-7411-4600-7, ISBN: 0-7411-4600-2 |
 | | Painted Words by Brenda Glover, Eva Sallis, K*M Mann, Scott Hopkins Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1999 by Wakefield Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86254-503-8, ISBN: 1-86254-503-0 "We followed Ursula along a sandstone verandah and in through a dark doorway, and I could smell hospital before I could see it. Ursula stepped towards a nest of sheets. She stood ... 'What a stinker,' said Ursula, fanning herself with her ..." |
 | | Hiam (Large Print) by Eva Sallis Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 1999 by Bolinda Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86442-360-0, ISBN: 1-86442-360-9 "In the course of the novel she weaves an identity out of the past, present, stories, dreams and the Australian landscape with which she engages for the first time." |
 | | Forked Tongues A delicious anthology of poetry and prose by Rebekah Clarkson, Eva Sallis, Kerrie Harrison, Lisa Jedynak, Gabrielle Artini-Hudson, Samantha Schulz, Gabrielle Hudson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Wakefield Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86254-594-6, ISBN: 1-86254-594-4 "... at least half a dozen bottles of Victoria Bitter beer; there were different kinds of cakes-poppy-seed and cheesecake, a pavlova; there were four or five different cheeses. It was all in preparation for the Christmas lunch. Nick extracted the carton ..." |
 | | Hiam by Eva Sallis and Eva Hornung by Eva Sallis Paperback, 139 Pages, Published 1998 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-86448-676-6, ISBN: 1-86448-676-7 "Winner of the 1997 Australian/Vogel Literary Award." |
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