$26.96
- Paperback
350 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2021
Summary
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920s.
The couple do not know each other, having only exchanged photographs and a handful of letters, but this marriage is Marija’s escape from a traumatised post-war Europe.
Her ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780645140521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 064514052X |
| Author: | Debra Gavranich |
| Publisher: | Debra Gavranich |
| Imprint: | Debra Gavranich |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Debra Gavranich
Debra Gavranich grew up on a sugarcane farm near Mossman in Far North Queensland. Both her parents were born on the Croatian island of Korčula, near Split, but her father’s family migrated to Australia in the 1920s to work on the cane fields. Much later, in 1952, her mother came out as a ‘proxy’ bride.
Debra has travelled extensively and lived and worked overseas. She has a dream to divide her time between the islands of Croatia (where most of her extended family still live) and the tropical city of Cairns, where she works as a physiotherapist and lives with her husband and family.
The Girl Who Left is Debra’s first book.
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