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Search - Thorn Lace: Mojmir - a Migrant's Lot

Thorn Lace Mojmir a Migrant's Lot
Author: Ina Vukic

Thorn lace:Mojmir - a Migrant's Lot is a non-fiction book of moving memoirs and intimate reminiscences recounted by a Croatian migrant living in Australia,Mojmir Damjanovic, to the author and written with the vivaciousness and vigour of a work of fiction.It is a story of courage, dreams, hopes, tragedies, suffering, loyalties, love, joy, despair... more », infidelities, agony, loneliness ... and vitriolic candor of battling for ones identity and bi-national pride. It is a story that simbolises the joys as well as agonies of migrants forging a new life away from their homelands. "If the system is rorting you, then you are justified in law and in morals to rort it to survive ... It is a hot afternoon in late October and the five rebels are gathered...to tell yet another reporter why they are prepared to lose their homes in an attempt to defy the corporation and the egg marketing system ... Watching these men closely, one does not see a group of rorting farmers intent, in the rhetoric of the corporation, on making profit by 'ratting on their mates'. One sees instead the proud Croatian face of Mr Damjanovic, 68, in heavy black-rimmed glasses ..." (The Sydney Morning Herald, p.81-86, November 5th 1988). To arrive at this point in life Mojmir Damjanovic recounts in "Thorn lace" the path: From painful poverty of 1920's Croatia, to the despair of his father's untimely death, through the hardships of surviving World War II in Nazi occupied Austria, across the horror and suffering inflicted by Communists in post-War-Yugoslavia and the tragedy of Croatian Holocaust, with the driving urge to beat poverty and escape deadly persecution - came his migration to Australia in 1951. He recounts the path of forging a new life in a strange country (Australia) whose language and culture are completely alien to him. His story of success is paved with sweat and tears, joy and tragedy. His story is a story of all migrants: a story of destiny where in migration one is forced to live simultaneously two parallel lives. One of these is the life that is lived through the heart and mind, memories and nostalgia for the "old country" and the other, the life of everyday living and struggles in the process of creating a new life in a strange land that beckons a migrant to acquire a new identity as a social and cultural human being. "Thorn lace" is a book that is particularly appealing to children of migrants born outside their parent's first homeland. It gives a potent insight into the human paths one is forced to take in life once one is torn from ones homeland and forced to live and create or bring up his family in a foreign land. Specifically, Thorn lace is a book which familiarises millions of second and third generation children born to Croatian migrants throughout the Western World with the long history and the soul of Croatian nation.

ISBN-13: 9780646393674
ISBN-10: 0646393677
Publication Date: 1/5/2000
Pages: 552
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Publisher: Lectern Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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