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Walk in My Shoes

By: Alwyn Evans
Narrated by: Kellie Jones
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 After a perilous and terrifying escape from war-torn Afghanistan, Gulnessa and her family find themselves in Australia, a place they know nothing about. They are exhausted and traumatised, but also full of hope. But their struggle isn't over yet. They are confined in a detention centre for asylum seekers, and forced to prove their refugee status. As days drag into weeks and months, Gulnessa is determined to stay strong. She cannot give up hope for a second chance at life, and the opportunity to build a future in a new land.©2004 Alwyn Evans. (P)2005 Bolinda Publishing Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Multicultural

Editor reviews

At once harrowing and heartwarming, Walk in My Shoes follows 16-year-old heroine Gulnessa, as her family flees the devastation of war-torn Aghanistan only to find themselves trapped in an Australian detention center for illegal immigrants. Author Alwyn Evans addresses a litany of heady issues - including war, human trafficking, religious persecution, racism, culture shock, and political asylum - while nevertheless rendering Gulnessa as a typical adolescent, fancifully doting on her secret crush or musing over future career goals. Actress Kellie Jones bequeaths Gulnessa a fitting teenage tone, imbuing the young heroine with playful rambunctiousness, naïve insecurity, and dreamy desires for her life ahead. Throughout the proceedings, Jones proves herself a masterful role player, as she delivers delightful accents, dialects, and dialogue sequences.

Critic reviews

This sound recording of the remarkable text, Walk in My Shoes, is an interesting way to encourage students to visualise the text, and indeed, walk in narrator Gulnessa's shoes. Gulnessa and her family (minus her father who had been taken by the 'terror' in Afghanistan) have finally made it to Australia as refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. However, they have to negotiate all of the pitfalls and problems that go with being held in an Australian detention centre. Gulnessa and her family encounter both small and large difficulties, from never having eaten cereal for breakfast to not knowing whether they will be deported back to Afghanistan and issues with her mother's mental health, yet there is always some amount of hope for the family. At eleven hours long, this is quite an epic sound recording. Kellie Jones is to be commended for keeping the quality of the narration at a high standard throughout all eleven discs. Walk in My Shoes is a rather long novel and this Bolinda audio version makes it more accessible to those who would not choose to read such a lengthy novel. (Fiction Focus)
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