Featuring a powerful narrative, this novel is recognized as a significant work in the First Nations Classics series, enhanced by an introduction from Mykaela Saunders. The author, notable for winning both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, weaves a compelling story that explores themes of identity and belonging within Indigenous culture. This edition highlights the book's enduring impact and relevance in contemporary literature.
Alexis Wright Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Alexis Wrightová je významnou autorkou z lidu Waanji z jižní oblasti zálivu Carpentaria. Její díla, často zasazená do krajiny severozápadního Queenslandu, zkoumají život na okraji společnosti a komplexní vztahy mezi domorodými Australany a jejich prostředím. Wrightová se ve svém psaní zaměřuje na sílu příběhů a jejich schopnost odrážet a formovat kulturní identitu a kolektivní paměť. Její prozaický styl je plynulý, poetický a hluboce zakořeněný v tradičních vyprávěcích formách, což čtenářům přináší jedinečný pohled na australské dějiny a současnost.
An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose "words explode from the page" (The Monthly)
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Carpentaria
- 439 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, this novel is the portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.
In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.