The Marsh Birds

by Eva Sallis

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741146003
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Haunting

An unforgetable searing tale of a refugee from Iraq to Australia. Opens your eyes about Australia.

tore me to pieces - best "fiction" i've read in AGES...

if you are unaware of how Australia (or America, for that matter) treats its potential immigrants and refugees, read a piece of fiction that exposes the truth. enjoy a beautifully written, lyric story while you're at it. i stayed up all night reading this book and cried when i finished - cried for the sad ending, cried for all the experiences that mirror the main character's, cried for the inhumanity of the government of a westernized country that was founded both on the destruction of an indigenous people and the shipping off of unwanteds and criminals (hmm, sounds distinctly like another country i know, the one i live in).