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The Cuckoo's Song

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​Award-winning author Amra Pajalić showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain.
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The Cuckoo’s Song-Francesca is ten years old when the gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.

Fragments-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.

Friends Forever-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.

School of Hardknocks-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.

Woman on Fire-A young girl lives with her mother’s boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.

Please be aware that trigger warnings could contain spoilers and so I have included them on my themes page

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Teaching notes

Teaching notes to support secondary school learning with a resource kit that contains:
  • Praise
  • Synopsis of stories
  • Author statement
  • Author information
  • Short story summaries
  • Reading, research, analysis and writing activities
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Teaching Notes


Praise
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'So devastatingly real' Maxine Beneba Clarke

​Nervous Breakdown

'Rebellion is fuelled by the cultural disconnect between themselves and their migrant parents.' Sydney Morning Herald
Siege
'A powerful and moving story of family dissolution and the suffering, deprivation and terror of war.' Australian Book Review
'Amra Pajalić’s Bosnian Diary is a masterpiece of broken elegy.' Bulletin Review
Flirty Eyes
'Interesting' and 'original' writing. Australian Book Review
'Marvellous' and 'brisk' writing. Rip it Up Review ​

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15/04/22 Off the page with Amra Pajalic-featured on the In Their Own Write blog about my writing process.  Read it here.  
08/03/22 Amra Pajalić featured as one of 8 Incredible Melbourne-Based Writers To Read On International Women’s Day by 
Secret Melbourne

​First author feature on Awesome Gang here

Copyright Amra Pajalic 2023
  • Home
    • Blog
    • About Me >
      • My Newsletter
      • Press Kit >
        • Alma's Loyalty Media Kit
        • Sabiha's Dilemma Media Kit
        • The Climb Media Kit
        • The Cuckoo's Song Media Kit
      • Articles
      • Book Me >
        • Aspiring writers >
          • Six things writers should do
          • Young Adult Books
          • Writing tips for young people
      • News & Events
      • Za Bosance
    • My Books >
      • Young Adult >
        • Cuckoos Song
        • Sassy Saints Series >
          • Sabiha's Dilemma >
            • The Good Daughter
          • Alma's Loyalty
          • Jesse's Triumph
        • The Climb
      • Memoir >
        • Things Nobody Knows But Me
        • Growing up Muslim in Australia
        • Meet Me at the Intersection
        • Rebellious Daughters
      • Romance >
        • Return to Me
        • Hollywood Dreams
      • Dark Fiction Horror >
        • WomanOnTheEdgeShortStory
    • Contact
    • Pishukin Press
    • Grant Writing Course