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A review by jennms_qkw
Farewell, My Orange by Iwaki Kei
5.0
Two immigrants to Australia become friends. The novel, originally written in Japanese, shares a variety of immigration stories and focuses on this female friendship in a new and strange land. Family, employment, relationships of all kinds are explored in this small town in rural Australia.
The book description and other reviews are all better than mine. So read those instead.
It brought back those times I was in an immigrant language class. In Sweden especially, so many of my classmates were from interesting places and I was unusual. In Germany, the class was at the University and everyone was in grad school or post-doc, and almost everyone was an EU citizen. There are universal experiences. And there are diverse experience. And the small things add up.
Also less than 200 pages.
The book description and other reviews are all better than mine. So read those instead.
It brought back those times I was in an immigrant language class. In Sweden especially, so many of my classmates were from interesting places and I was unusual. In Germany, the class was at the University and everyone was in grad school or post-doc, and almost everyone was an EU citizen. There are universal experiences. And there are diverse experience. And the small things add up.
Also less than 200 pages.