1/5DP Kristina Olsson in conversation with Ramona Koval - Brisbane - no travel

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Thanks to our pals over at Avid Reader (INSPIRE : FESTIVAL official book seller) we have 5 double pass to give away to their upcoming event on Wednesday 17 July featuring award-winning author Kristina Olsson in-conversation with Ramona Koval discussing Koval's memoir, Bloodhound: Searching for My Father.  For your chance to WIN simply send your full name, email address and postal address to winwin@bwf.org.au by Wednesday 10 July at midday with the words AVID READER in the subject line. Good Luck!
Where:   Avid Reader Bookshop , 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU). 
Date: Wednesday, 17, June, 2015 
Time: 6:00:pm -   8:00:pm 
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 Event description:

 bloodhoundJoin award-winning author Kristina Olsson in-conversation with Ramona Koval discussing her memoir, Bloodhound: Searching for My Father.

 

I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that might ensue. Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy—and if you are, are you my real father?

 

Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives—only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father.

 

200.RAMONA KOVALOne day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.

 

A quest for identity recounted with Koval’s customary humour, Bloodhound takes hold of the reader and never lets go. It is a moving story of the terrible cost of war and of family secrets.

 

ABOUT RAMONA KOVAL
Ramona Koval is a Melbourne writer, journalist, broadcaster and editor. From 2006 to 2011 she presented Radio National’s Book Show, and she has written for Age and the Australian. She is the author of By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life, and Bloodhound: Searching For My Father.