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Sophie

  • ISBN-13: 9781761099021
  • Publisher: GINNINDERRA PRESS
    Imprint: GINNINDERRA PRESS
  • By Barbara Kamler
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 4 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 22/07/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) Weight: 176g
  • Categories: Autobiography: general [BGA]
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At fourteen Sophie Kamler crossed the Atlantic alone from Poland to America. At sixteen she paid for her siblings and mother to follow. At eighteen a penniless wife then a mother of three she defied New York gangsters.


At fifty six a widow she married again only to be widowed a second time. Matriarch to a sprawling but tightly held family of descendants hers is a story of ambition - of love given withheld slighted sustained and disappointed.


Told here by her granddaughter Barbara Kamler in riveting vignettes photographs and poetic reflections this tale will resonate with the experience of so many remarkable women minimising the complexity and vibrancy of their lives.




Barbara Kamler was born in New Jersey and has lived in Melbourne, Australia for over five decades. After publishing nine academic books and countless research essays, her heart turned to poetry. Leaving New Jersey (2016) is a memoir told in prose poetry. Love, regardless (2022), a gallery of fourteen long-love portraits, is based on interviews but told in syllabic verse. Sophie (2024), her newest collection, is a multi-voiced narrative about Barbara's grandmother Sophie Kamler, who in 1907 at age fourteen, fled the pogroms and poverty in Poland and ventured to the new world of New York City, alone.
I found it unputdownable almost holding my breath all the way through' - Kevin Brophy
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