Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable’s quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever-recurring journeys in search of belonging.

‘I can think of no other writer who describes the aching heart of humanity with as much wisdom and compassion as Arnold Zable. _The Watermil_l brings gentle light to some dark places. Whatever ails the human race, Zable is surely part of the solution.‘ - Michael McGirr