
In Search Of Carmen Caruana
Born in suburban Melbourne and adopted by an Australian
couple Margaret Underwood begins a search for her mother - a search which takes
her inside the two cultures of her parents origins.... Malta and Slovenia
This is an intricate novel which draws the reader into a
contemporary Australian family and from there moves to explore the lives of a
host of characters who were involved in Margaret's story.
In Search of Carmen Caruana is a story of post war
migration and displacement, of young love thwarted by a father's indomitable
will and of consequences which reach down the generations.
This is an emotive story about the quest to find what is
lost, a story filled with cultural complexities and human emotions - a story of
survival and witness.