{"product_id":"god-forgets-about-the-poor","title":"God Forgets About The Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A stand out amongst contemporary Australian literary fiction for its stylistic and structural ambition, \u003ci\u003eGod Forgets About the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is the novel Polites has been climbing to. It is moving, poetic, powerful - at once a folktale and a modern day lament. Christos Tsiolkas meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez.’ - Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and award winning author of \u003ci\u003eForeign Soil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hate Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘In \u003ci\u003eGod Forgets About the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e, Polites has produced a masterpiece.’ -\u003ci\u003e ArtsHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘a triumphant reclamation, written in prose clean as polished stones’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eGod Forgets About the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e feels like a culmination; it’s the author’s most striking work yet.’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘an important literary achievement’ \u003ci\u003e- The Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eGod Forgets About the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is a reminder that everyone has a story worth telling and hearing, but not everyone gets the chance to share it. This is one told well.’ - \u003ci\u003eBooks + Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI will tell you why you should draft my story. Because migrant stories are broken. Some parts in a village where we washed our clothing with soot. Some parts in big cities working in factories. How we starved for food in Greece and starved for Greece in Australia.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou don’t know the first thing about me. A son can never see his mother as a woman. You will only see me in relation to you. I have had a thousand lives before you were even a thought. Hospitalised as a child for an entire year. Living as an adult without family in Athens when the colonels took control.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStart when I was born. Describe the village and how beautiful it was. On the side of a mountain but in the middle of a forest. If we walked to a certain point on the edge, we could look over the valley and see rain clouds coming. Sometimes we would see a cat on a roof, we read that as a warning of a storm. When we looked down, we saw the dirt, which was just as rich as the sky. My island, your island, our island.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSometimes I think God forgot about us because we were poor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eDown the Hume \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pillars\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGod Forgets About the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is as important as any ever told.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eGOD FORGETS ABOUT THE POOR:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003c\/i\u003ePolites brings to light his mother’s story, a migrant woman who has lived a number of lives, surely a common story in the Greek community, and while the title suggests god may forget about the poor, Polites wants to make sure the world does not.’ - \u003ci\u003eNeos Kosmos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘It is an exquisite mode for the diaspora story, a genre that is increasingly losing its meaningfulness in a time of its commodification. In God Forgets About the Poor, the old country is dead, yet it continues to live vividly in migrants' memories even as they evolve amongst future generations.’ - \u003ci\u003eABC Arts - The Bookshelf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003c\/i\u003ePeter Polites is also sensitive to the ways in which migrant stories can be reduced, stereotyped and consumed in mainstream publishing, and is at pains to give voice to the complexity and richness of his subject's experience.’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘a nuanced portrait in which a mother—in her full and challenging complexity—is truly honoured.’ - \u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57238408069502,"sku":"NW9781761151644","price":13.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781761151644.jpg?v=1778535380","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/god-forgets-about-the-poor","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}