Rosa R. Cappiello

Oh Lucky Country is a rarity in Australian literature that it was written in Italian and translated into English not long after publication in the 1970s. Now reissued for The Australian Classics Library, it is raw, angry and confronting, yet curiously seductive. Here is the voice of that army of Italian migrant factory workers of the seventies: they were invisible to many, or known only in halting conversations that could not progress beyond simple greetings. Was Rosa’s scorn for Australian culture and mores widespread? Impossible to know!
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