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Praiseworthy
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- Book Synopsis
- Winner of the 2024 James Tait Black Prize - FictionWinner of the 2024 Stella PrizeShortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2023 Queensland Award for Literary FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance, Queensland Literary AwardsLonglisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary AwardLonglisted for the Climate Fiction PrizeIn a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his people's independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees. Outrage ferments at his desecration of traditional land, while Cause's wife Dance seeks refuge with butterflies and dreams of moving their family to China. Bad feelings reach fever pitch when citizens catch wind of the suicide of Aboriginal Sovereignty, Cause's eldest son. All are distraught - all, that is, except eight-year-old Tommyhawk Steel, who, with his brother gone, gleefully pursues his dream of becoming white and powerful. Told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned, Praiseworthy is a marvel of explosive sentences, a shock to allegory, an outraged cry against oppression, and a biting satire for the end of days.'I'm awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of Alexis Wright's work. She is vital on the subject of land and people.' Robert Macfarlane, New York Times Book Review
- About The Author
- Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is one of Australia's most acclaimed and fearless writers. Wright is the only author to win Australia's two most prestigious prizes twice each, the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria and 2024 for Praiseworthy) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker and 2024 for Praiseworthy). Praiseworthy has won or been a finalist for seven UK, Irish and Australian prizes.
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- ISBN
- 9781913505929
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (02 November 2023)
- Weight
- 641 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 199 x 58 mm
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