Description
Discover the profound narrative of 'Taboo', a compelling literary work penned by Kim Scott, a two-time Miles Franklin Literary Award winner. This trade paperback edition offers readers a unique lens into the complex interplay of history, culture, and identity through the experiences of the Noongar people in rural South-West Western Australia. The story unfolds as a group of Noongar individuals embarks on a journey to confront their past, revisiting a site long shrouded in painful memories—the location of a massacre that disrupts the fabric of their history.
Written with ambition and poetic language, 'Taboo' delves deep into themes of survival, renewal, and the enduring hope that lies within despair. As they reconnect with their language, lore, and country, the characters navigate the moral implications of a past that still haunts them. With 304 pages of richly woven storytelling, this novel challenges perceptions and fosters a deeper understanding of the Noongar culture and its relationship to the land.
'Taboo' has received multiple accolades, including the 2018 NSW Premier's Award for Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writer's Prize, solidifying its place in contemporary literature. Ideal for readers who appreciate thought-provoking narratives, this book is a must-have addition to your collection.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. ISBN: 9781925483741. Published in 2017 by Pan Macmillan Australia.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925483741
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Pages: 304
Description:
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.
But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.
We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 2018
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PERMIER'S LITEARRY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWAR
Written with ambition and poetic language, 'Taboo' delves deep into themes of survival, renewal, and the enduring hope that lies within despair. As they reconnect with their language, lore, and country, the characters navigate the moral implications of a past that still haunts them. With 304 pages of richly woven storytelling, this novel challenges perceptions and fosters a deeper understanding of the Noongar culture and its relationship to the land.
'Taboo' has received multiple accolades, including the 2018 NSW Premier's Award for Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writer's Prize, solidifying its place in contemporary literature. Ideal for readers who appreciate thought-provoking narratives, this book is a must-have addition to your collection.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. ISBN: 9781925483741. Published in 2017 by Pan Macmillan Australia.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925483741
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Pages: 304
Description:
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.
But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.
We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 2018
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PERMIER'S LITEARRY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWAR