The family frying pan / Bryce Courtenay ; illustrated by Ann Williams.

By: Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012Contributor(s): Williams, Ann, 1942- | Brissenden collectionMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Kew [Victoria] : William Heinemann Australia, 1997Description: 291 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 x 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0855616997 :Subject(s): Courtenay, Bryce, 1933- -- Family | Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 | Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 -- Family | 1900 - 1999 | Australian fiction | Cookery -- Fiction | Cookbooks -- Fiction | Jews -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | Authors, Australian -- Family relationships | Families | Jewish cooking | Jewish families | Jewish refugees | Jews -- Social life and customs | Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Family relationships | Jews -- Russia -- Social life and customs | Jewish refugees -- Russia | Jewish families -- Russia | Jewish cooking | Short stories | Cooking -- Fiction | Refugees -- Fiction | Russia (Federation) | RussiaGenre/Form: Short stories. | Australian fiction -- 20th century | Short stories. Additional physical formats: Online version: Family frying pan.DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: PR9619.3 | C688 F35 1997
Contents:
The family frying pan -- Such a clever little mushroom -- The feast of pearls -- The Princess Tatiana and the Indian myna bird -- The banquet of past suffering and future joy -- The blacksmith with a beluga tongue -- Miss Showbiz and the death of Count Tolstoy -- Cleopatra's cat and the letters from Egypt -- To the four winds.
Summary: Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan, it's the family frying pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across Russia to freedom. In return, each of the group must tell a story around the campfire at night, stories of compassion and bravery, of human frailty and, above all, of hope.
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The family frying pan -- Such a clever little mushroom -- The feast of pearls -- The Princess Tatiana and the Indian myna bird -- The banquet of past suffering and future joy -- The blacksmith with a beluga tongue -- Miss Showbiz and the death of Count Tolstoy -- Cleopatra's cat and the letters from Egypt -- To the four winds.

Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan, it's the family frying pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across Russia to freedom. In return, each of the group must tell a story around the campfire at night, stories of compassion and bravery, of human frailty and, above all, of hope.

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