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 Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
Alexis Wright ist eine gefeierte Autorin vom Volk der Waanji aus dem südlichen Golf von Carpentaria. Ihr Werk erforscht oft das Leben im Golfland und schildert die prekäre Existenz und die komplexen Beziehungen innerhalb abgelegener Küstengemeinden. Wrights Schreiben befasst sich mit der Kraft des Geschichtenerzählens, kulturelle Identität und kollektives Gedächtnis zu spiegeln und zu formen. Ihre Prosa ist lyrisch und tief in traditionellen Erzählformen verwurzelt, was den Lesern eine tiefe Verbindung zum Land und seinen Menschen bietet.
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 Seiten
- 16 Lesestunden
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.