โ Scribed by Goldsmith, Andrea
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Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still ... It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world, the Soviet bloc is in turmoil. Mikhail Gorbachev has been in power for a year when twenty-four-year-old book illustrator Galina Kogan leaves Leningrad - forbidden ever to return. As a Jew, she's inherited several generations worth of Russia's chronic anti-Semitism. As a Soviet citizen, she is unprepared for Australia and its easy-going ways. Once settled in Melbourne, Galina is befriended by Sylvie and Leonard Morrow, and their adult son, Andrew. The Morrow marriage of thirty years balances on secrets. Leonard is a man with conflicted desires and passions, while Sylvie chafes against the confines of domestic life. Their son, Andrew, a successful mosaicist, is a deeply shy man. He is content with his life and work - until he finds himself increasingly drawn to Galina. While Galina grapples with the tumultuous demands that come with being an immigrant in Australia, her presence disrupts the lives of each of the Morrows. No one is left unchanged. Invented Lives tells a story of exile: exile from country, exile at home, and exile from one's true self. It is also a story about love.;Intro; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; 1 DEATH AND RECKLESS BEHAVIOUR IN LENINGRAD; 2 IN TRANSIT; 3 THE RIGHT JOB FOR A SHY MAN; 4 PROSPECTING FOR HOME; 5 UNSTUCK BUT NOT UNDONE; 6 LIFE AND DEATH IN THE SOVIET UNION; 7 LANDMARKS OF A LIFE; 8 A GOOD MARRIAGE; 9 OLD SOVIET, NEW AUSTRALIAN; 10 OWLS OF THE DESERT; 11 UNCHARTED WATERS; 12 LIFE'S RAFFLE; 13 MANIFEST DESTINIES; 14 LOVE AND OBLIGATIONS; 15 CLANDESTINE MOMENTS; 16 YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE; 17 UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SUN; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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