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Colour-Coated Identity

A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780648038696
Publisher: TALE PUBLISHING
Imprint: TALE PUBLISHING
By Bala Mudaly
Price: AUD $29.95
Stock: 12 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 03/12/2021
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 328 pages Weight: 480g
Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Memoirs [BM]

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Google Preview: This is a memoir of an Australian who began life as an Indian South African. It is a compelling, personal story of life under Apartheid, and his fraught journey across Africa, Europe, Asia and, eventually, Australia in search of belonging and a sense of self beyond the toxic constraints of race, colour and class.; Bala Mudaly is an Indian South African, born in Durban in 1938. Chronic job insecurity and political harassment compelled him to migrate to Australia in 1988 with his wife. He retired as a clinical psychologist from Monash Health in Melbourne in Dec 2018 at the age of 80. His debut collection of poems and short stories set in Australia, Colours of Hope and Despair, was self-published in 2018 and is available on Kindle. He has also had a short story, Self-Inflected Pain of the Writer’s Kind, published in the Victorian Writer, a quarterly writers’ magazine. The author contributes short pieces to a fortnightly online publication of UKZN in Durban, the Creative Network Magazine. As an amateur writer, he has workshopped almost all his creative writings in a Writers Group sponsored by the City of Monash public library service. His memoir, Colour-Coated Identity, is his most ambitious creative non-fiction project. Currently, the author is working on a novel with the tentative title: Imperfect Lives. Its theme is the challenges of friendships and family relationships in post-apartheid South Africa beyond the constraints of race and colour.; * Author has previously published in several fiction anthologies. * The unique story of coming to grips with one’s identity as a minority in a minority, told across continents and cultures. * Told with the insight only a lifetime of introspection and study could bring. Publicity: * Radio interview on 3SER. * Speaker at writing groups and festivals. * Publisher Website and social media.; Google Preview content