Benang from the Heart

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Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather’s enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first whiteman born’, he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told? Oceanic in rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and images, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebrations 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kim Scott

Kim Scott is a descendant of people who have always lived along the south-east coast of Western Australia and is glad to be living in times when it is possible to explore the significance of that fact and be among those who call themselves Nyoongar. Kim Scott began writing for publication shortly after he became a secondary school teacher of English. His first novel, True Country, was published in 1993 and he has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies. In recent years, he has received grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Western Australian Department for the Arts to enable him to devote more time to writing. He lives in Coolbellup, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, with his wife and children.

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Title
Benang from the Heart
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Edition
Reprint
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ISBN
143029843
Length
502p.
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