The Idea of Home
This autobiographical novel was written over a ten-year period. It is a collection of five interlinked essays where Hughes' describes his relationship with the Ukraine heritage of his mother and grandfather and his childhood experience of growing up as a second generation Australian. The essays are also about how the idea of Europe he developed as a young man clashed with the reality he found in Cambridge and when he travelled though Europe.
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