We have a copy of The Girl From Sarajevo to give away.
Author: Stef Harris
The Girl from Sarajevo: RRP $35.00 Published by: Quentin Wilson Publishing
These two novellas by award-winning author Stef Harris are dark and funny, and both stories focus on strong women facing life challenges.
The Girl from Sarajevo
Young and self-assured immigrant Katia will do anything to become a novelist. When she encounters her neighbour, an aging novelist from the old country, she embarks on an audacious plan to represent Dragan’s new novel as her own. Weaponising her sexuality, she enters into a cynical, twisted affair with the elder wordsmith. But Dragan holds a dangerous secret that may destroy them both.
The Other Jamine
Wong Ji Li is a Chinese mail-order bride who, on arriving in Auckland, discovers her new husband-to-be is not a wealthy land owner and IT business executive. He is, in fact, living with his mother in a farmhouse on sickness benefit, and his IT business is selling bric a brac on TradeMe. Wong Ji Li attempts to make the best of the situation but finds herself enslaved by Darryl and his overbearing mother Donna. They rename her Jasmine because it’s too hard to say Wong Ji Li, and she is treated as a servant. Soon, she discovers evidence in the house of a previous mail-order bride also named Jasmine. And nobody knows what happened to the other Jasmine. Did she run away? Was she murdered? Wong Ji Li is in a predicament.
Stef arris’s two filmic novellas share one key element in common: a heroine we can come to admire for her determination to make her way in the world, as all costs.