Scraps of Heaven / Arnold Zable

From The Age review:

Scraps of Heaven works over much the same ground as Arnold Zable's wildly successful novel Cafe Scheherazade, in which he shares the stories of migrants who congregate in a St Kilda cafe. But in Scraps of Heaven it is as if Zable follows these characters home from the cafe - from the stories of survival they tell each other, to the stories of horror they can't stop telling themselves.