Sunrise West – Jacob G. Rosenberg

Sunrise West navigates between two worlds: the author’s wartime and postwar experiences in Europe, and his highly acclaimed memoir East of Time, to which this book forms a sequel.

It is a weave of autobiography, history and imagination, rich in ideas and peopled with an array of memorable characters. Whether describing the momentous or the mundane, Jacob Rosenberg writes with passion, irony and dark humour – and above all, a compelling zest for life.

East of Time won the 2006 New South Wales Premier’s Award for non-fiction and the 2007 biography award. It was shortlisted in the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Awards, the South Australian Festival Awards, and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

Brandl & Schlesinger Publishing 2007, paperback