WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

Nyoongar. A novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post-colonial Aboriginal history. Aust. author. True country.

Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament–of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past.

Winner of the 2000 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Literary prizes — Australia.  |  Australian fiction.  |  Literature and stories – Fiction.  |  Race relations.  |  Government policy – State and territory – Western Australia.  |  Government policy – Assimilation.  |  Australia — Fiction.  |  Western Australia (WA)

500 p. : 1 port. ; 21 cm. #020122/28226