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Secretsincity is a contemporary tale about a violent past told in urban language by an urban street kid who meets an aging survivor of the Holocaust.
The Book has been published via Xlibris Australia and is available as eBook and Paperback - 363 pages - released in December 2012.
About the Book
Street dweller and graffitist, BRINEY RUZA, has created a bizarre trackside game of secrets as a bit of cheeky fun for city commuters. But after a near-death train surfing incident, walls, her public canvas, begin using Briney and her art to release the secrets they were built to contain.
One family-related secret leads Briney and her ratbag boyfriend ZAC to Terezín, a small Czech fortress town once a Jewish Ghetto under Nazi control during WWII. Here she hopes to find her mother who deserted her at the age of eight. But first she encounters Ghetto survivor, Evzen Kravitz, a troubled, scruffy old man with little tolerance for today’s youth, who, for his own devious reasons, holds the key to this particular secret.
A chance meeting with a Czech girl, ZOJA, a Goth in that most gothic of cities, Prague, brings Briney’s sexuality into question. Meanwhile, Zac comes under the influence of a group of skinheads. These new relationships turn out to have direct and devastating connections to the traumatic past of the Ghetto, the Nazis, one particular camp ‘policeman’ – a Roma Kapo – and back to present-day Melbourne.
Nowhere are there more secrets than within the walls of Terezín, and Briney is drawn deep into the conspiracies surrounding the Holocaust, her own family and the ongoing corruption and rise of neo-nazism. Not all involved will come out alive.
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "This book has all the elements of a brilliant read: fast action, suspense, mystery and a main character who grabs your sympathy and curiosity. The story about a modern Australian girl searching for her roots unfolds against a background of twentieth-century European upheavals that still reach into people's lives. The language is rough, as suits the characters,[...]" - Kate, Brisbane
- "This is a cracking read. Each page had me captivated. The writing style isn't flowery. Great pacing and evocative imagery which had me curiously tracking down more details on the net. All the characters and how the story unfolded was fantastic. An endearing main character who's stepped outside of mainstream society and is drawn from Melbourne Australia to a decaying WWII era Jewish ghetto had me on her side. Long lost Nazi secrets and present day skinhead pursuers await. Sex by obligation and sex as a curiosity entertains along the way. A cheeky twist at the end too. " - TROY
- "This is a great read and I couldn`t put this book down compelled on to the next chapter too learn what was about to unfold for the main character (Briney). I read it in 3 days during holidays in Bali and was hooked with the mix of history of the war crimes in Prague, Briney`s pursuit of her Jewish estranged Mother, the tantalising complexity of her sexual being and the 'white collar' crime which was tied in rather neatly to the war. " - Lord Byron
About the Author
Living in a beach house dug into the side of a hill overlooking the high sand dunes of the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, Deray allows the sounds and smells of ocean living to wash aside the intrusive influences of city life to free up the mind and harness ideas and a sometimes wild imagination.
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Link to the Paperback Secretsincity with Excerpt on Amazon
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