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Ann Major was born in 1928 in Budapest, which at the time competed socially and culturally with Paris. Of Jewish origin but thoroughly assimilated, Ann received an excellent education which, together with her youthful optimism, helped her through the terrible months of the Holocaust, the brutally long siege of Budapest and the arrival as well as the depredations of the Soviet Red Army. Fleeing Hungary at the time of the Communist take-over, Ann and her husband settled in Sydney, Australia.

Once their circumstances made it possible and their children no longer needed her full attention, Ann, hoping to continue her interrupted studies, enrolled as a mature age student in the Arts Faculty of Macquarie University. Her passion for history kept he ...more

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	A Carpet of Jacaranda 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Budapest to Berrima it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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