2006
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4.03
Average Rating
320
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Zeki Togan may have been born in the Old Country, but he considers himself as Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi as the next bloke. More so, in fact, because he?s a crim ? since Australia was founded by convicts, he reckons he?s more Australian than people who were born here but haven?t committed even one crime in their whole lives. Unfortunately, the Department of Immigration sees things differently. And so the happy-go-lucky, wisecracking Zeki, a small-time break-and-enter artist who loves Australia even if he can?t stand Australian movies, finds himself in Immigration Detention, thrown in with asylum seekers, sex slaves, other criminals and visa overstayers. Immigration wants to deport him ? and his own father doesn?t think that?s a bad idea. Worst of all, although he adores his girlfriend, Marlena, he?s having a hell of a time proving it from the wrong side of a double fence.
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Author
Linda Jaivin
Author · 9 books
Linda Jaivin is the author of twelve books, including the forthcoming (May 2021) The Shortest History of China and the novel The Empress Lover, published in April 2014 as well as the travel companion Beijing, published in July 2014. Other major publications include the Quarterly Essay: Found in Translation (late 2013), five novels and a novella, a collection of essays (Confessions of an S&M Virgin) and a China memoir (Monkey and the Dragon). Her first novel was the internationally bestselling comic erotic Eat Me. The Empress Lover follows A Most Immoral Woman, which is set in China and Japan in 1904 and based on a true story. She is also a translator from Chinese and a playwright. She was the winner of the 2014 New South Wales Writers Fellowship.
