Benang: From the Heart

Kim Scott
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Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament—of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past.
Genres: AustraliaFictionIndigenousRaceMagical RealismHistoricalNovelsHistorical FictionContemporary20th Century
502 Pages

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