The black horse gallops faster. The ground is shaking, the dirt at my feet curls like a wave. We will not make it, I scream, and I wake before we can be crushed.
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The black horse gallops faster. The ground is shaking, the dirt at my feet curls like a wave. We will not make it, I scream, and I wake before we can be crushed.
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Soraya is a storyteller. The stories from Afghanistan keep her memories alive in Australia, as she starts a new life under the shadow of a Temporary Protection Visa. But it is the ebony horse which flies through her dreams that helps her find a strange land between remembering and forgetting, a land where she can be safe.
A powerful and moving story - Tom ShapcottAbout the Author
Rosanne Hawke lived as aid worker in the North-west Frontier Province of Pakistan for many years. Her other books include Borderland , Wolfchild (shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards), Zenna Dare and Sailmaker in the 2005 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Rosanne teaches part time at Adelaide TAFE and is completing a PhD at the University of Adelaide.
Soraya is a storyteller. The stories from Afghanistan keep her memories alive in Australia, as she starts a new life under the shadow of a Temporary Protection Visa. But it is the ebony horse which flies through her dreams that helps her find a strange land between remembering and forgetting, a land where she can be safe.A powerful and moving story - Tom Shapcott
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