The swan book / Alexis Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Alexis, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Australia--Fiction.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, New South Wales : Giramondo, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of

Contents:

CONTENTS; Prelude: Ignis Fatuus; Dust Cycle; The Dust Ends; The News from the Sea; Brolga and Swan; Twenty Years of Swans; The Yellow Chat's Story; Swan Maiden; Owls in the Grass; A Lake of White Water; The Christmas House; City Swan; Gypsy Swans; City of Refugees; The Street Serpent; Travelling Road Show; The Ghost Walk; Marsh Lake Swans; Epilogue: The Swan Country; A Note on Sources; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

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Print version:

ISBN:

1-922146-43-9

1-922146-44-7

OCLC:

854900796