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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oneworld PublicationsISBN-13:9781836431060ISBN-10:1836431066UPC:9781836431060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Historical, War & MilitaryBook Topic:General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or NativSize:7.72 x 5.04 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.61Product ID:SC7XE1BSN1
Two extraordinary stories set five generations apart are connected by a violent colonial history, in Melissa Lucashenko's stunning historical epic 'Lucashenko is a national treasure: there are no two ways around it.' Vogue Australia * Already the winner of eight major literary awards, including Australia's richest literary prize * TWO UNFORGETTABLE STORIES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY. 1854: When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Brisbane - or Edenglassie, as it was once briefly known - his community still outnumbers the British settlers. Tensions are simmering just beneath the surface of a fragile peace, but hopes for independence are running high. Yet when colonial unrest tears through the region, Mulanyin's passion for his new bride clashes with his loyalty to a homeland in danger. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny when her grandmother Eddie has a serious fall. Winona just wants the obstinate centenarian back on her feet, but a shrewd journalist has other ideas. Eddie becomes a local celebrity, dominating the headlines as 'Queensland's Oldest Aboriginal'. Her time in the spotlight brings past and present crashing together, the legacy of Nita and Mulanyin's tragic past reaching into Winona and Eddie's lives with consequences they couldn't have predicted.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oneworld PublicationsISBN-13:9781836431060ISBN-10:1836431066UPC:9781836431060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Historical, War & MilitaryBook Topic:General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or NativSize:7.72 x 5.04 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.61Product ID:SC7XE1BSN1
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.
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