True Country

by Kim Scott

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About the Book

Kim Scott captures the ambiguities, the troubles and the rewards which accompany the brutal and delicate nuances of relations when particles of one culture pass, as if through a fine sieve, into the heart of another culture.
Elizabeth Jolley

‘True Country, Kim Scott’s first novel, is superb’ — Sydney Morning Herald

‘This vital, often lyrical and always uncompromising novel marks an impressive debut’ — Australian Book Review

‘… a superb novel, original in conception and wonderfully evocative’ — The Australian

Billy is drifting, looking for a place to land. A young school teacher, he arrives in Australia’s remote far north in search of his own history, his Aboriginality, and his future. He finds himself in a region of abundance and beauty but also of conflict, dispossession and dislocation. On the desperate frontier between cultures, Billy must find his place of belonging.

Categories

Indigenous Writing, Adult Fiction

Publication Year

2009

Edition

2nd

Publisher

Fremantle Press

ISBN13

9781921361524

HB/PB

Paperback

Format

B Format (192mm x 128mm)

Pages

304

Other Editions

Ebook

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