Book Chat - The Sunbird with Barbie Robinson and Sara Haddad

Join us as Barbie Robinson interviews Sara Haddad for the launch of her novel, The Sunbird.

Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion with her, and her past and present are one. Told in time shift, The Sunbird is a modern parable which tells the story of millions who just want to go home. 

Tom Keneally, author of Schindler’s List, said of The Sunbird:

In Sara Haddad’s splendidly paced and tragic tale of the delicious banality of the life of a child comes the overwhelming sophistication of malign weaponry and politics. The world cries out for the obliterated rights of Gaza's children, and Haddad’s story honours their too often cancelled right to continued breath.

Sara Haddad is a writer and editor who is based in Sydney. This is her first work of fiction.