Description
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.
| EAN: | 9781836431060 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 03.07.2025 |
| Autoren: | Lucashenko, Melissa |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 320 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Indigenous / General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Native American) |
| Keyword: | Percival Everett; The Trees; australia; Mary Lawson; A Town Called Solace; Wandering Stars; Miles Franklin Award; Lauren Groff; The Vaster Wilds; James; The Night Watchman; Erasure; Charlotte Wood; Stone Yard Devotional; Brotherless Night; V.V. Ganeshananthan; Anne Michaels; Held; Michael Ondaatje; The English Patient; Coming through Slaughter; historical fiction; booker; aboriginal; indigenous australian; goorie; Too Much Lip; epic novel; colonial fiction; postcolonial; Queensland; myth; award-winning; history; Great Circle; Maggie Shipstead; Geraldine Brooks; Horse; Tommy Orange; There There; Louise Erdrich; The Sentence; Praiseworthy; Alexis Wright; Kate Grenville |
| Fachschema: | Australische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Familienleben~Erzählerisches Thema: Vertreibung, Exil, Migration~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Regionalroman~Belletristik: basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu indigenen Völkern |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 130 mm |