Add free shipping to your order with these great books
Paul and Paula : A Story of Separation, Survival and Belonging - Tim McNamara

Paul and Paula

A Story of Separation, Survival and Belonging

By: Tim McNamara

Paperback | 1 December 2023

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $32.99

$30.25

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.56 with

In Stock and Aims to ship next day
‘In fifty years…nobody will then know anything about our troubles.’

1939: Paul Kurz engineer, refugee from Vienna and Dunera Boy is separated from his wife, Paula, and his mother at the outbreak of World War II and interned in Australia.

Late 1960s: an Australian student from an Irish Catholic family railing against his alcoholic father, struggling with his religious upbringing and coming to terms with his sexuality strikes up a profound friendship with Paul, two generations older.

Decades after Paul’s death, he pieces together Paul’s incredible story from surviving family letters, and travels to Vienna to discover Paul’s history and that of the city its beauty, its violence, its cruelty, what Paul loved and how he suffered there. The letters reveal Paul’s heartbreaking separation from Paula, his life in exile in England and Australia, his desperate attempts to reconnect with his wife and the eventual fateful outcome.

This lyrical, poignant account combines memoir, biography and history to explore the enduring influence of one elderly Holocaust survivor and the intergenerational impact of the famed Dunera.

More in Historical, Political and Military Biographies

A Secretive Century : Monte Punshon's Australia 1882-1989 - Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Freedom, Only Freedom : The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani - Behrouz Boochani
Lovers in Auschwitz : A True Story - Keren Blankfeld

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
The Game : A Portrait of Scott Morrison - Sean Kelly
Bennelong and Phillip : A History Unravelled - Kate Fullagar

RRP $55.00

$39.90

27%
OFF
Enzo Ferrari : The definitive biography of an icon - Luca Dal Monte
Power of Balance : A Life of Changemaking - Kerryn Phelps

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Bravo Two Zero : 20th Anniversary Edition - Andy McNab
First Man In : Leading from the Front - Ant Middleton

RRP $24.99

$23.75

Churchill : An Illustrated Life - Brenda Ralph Lewis

FREE SHIPPING

RRP $43.99

$41.80

A Sense of Balance - John Howard

RRP $32.99

$30.25

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex - Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

RRP $34.99

$31.35

10%
OFF
The Plot : The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson - Nadine Dorries
At War with My Father : Fred Howe: Prisoner of War - Lynette Ramsay Silver