Mother Land

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Mother Land </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is an autobiographical novel a minutely remembered description of childhood on an Aegean island. Dmetri Kakmi was born into an age-old Greek community on the now-Turkish island of Bozcaada in the early 1960s. His nine-year-old self tries to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk Christian and Muslim just as he tries to understand the violence between his cosmopolitan mother and his fisherman father. Before the family emigrates to Australia leaving behind their beautiful if impoverished homeland he reveals with chilling clarity how violence begets violence in even the most unexpected of people.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Returning as an adult to try to make sense of his experience and to make peace with the past Dmetri Kakmi uncovers a family secret which allows the final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place. </span></p>