Deeply original, and the language is just so beautiful. Thousands of refugees like Bella Donna drift across the oceans in search of hospitable land. 29 Jul 2013. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Maybe when my life is a little less hectic with uni/assignments and I have much more time to devote myself to it.I'm so sorry Alexis Wright. As much as I love your richly detailed writing, this book is far too dense for me and my totally fried brain to process right now. I got a lot out of Wright's previous book (Carpenteria), but here I think she's kicked it up a notch and left me floundering in her wake. I don’t think at any point of the book there was a moment of relief from the forlorn situation of the suffering and dehumanised “Oblivia” also sometimes called “Ethyl” or variations on these. It has all the elements I'm interested in, but the writing is just terrible.
- the confronting power of the novel rests in knowing that elements of this dystopian nightmare will come to pass, or have already come to pass. I can appreciate that Wright has many important things to say about Australia as a country and the Indigenous people, however I feel as though she could have gotten her point across better and more effectively if she had put down the thesaurus and simply said what she wanted to say. Of the handful of environmental disaster novels that have appeared, Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling Jane Gleeson-White is an internationally acclaimed writer and author of Six Capitals (2014), Double Entry (2011), Australian Classics (2007) and Classics (2005)....It has only been four years since Mununjali Yugambeh poet Ellen van Neerven’s first volume, Comfort Food, appeared.
Hopefully more thoughts to follow.The Swan Book is set in a dystopian future where climate change has wreaked havoc on the Australian (and international) landscape. But first he must marry. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, the Burramattagal people of the Darug nation, and pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. As in: not colonised, but civilised. He was wearing yet another hat from his home hat, or his national hat, who knew these days. I've finished. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Words you can sink into, words you can dream about. She has escaped her devastated country in the northern hemisphere, where ‘whole herds of deer were left standing like statues of yellow ice while blizzards stormed’. Published If you just skim the words, you get a feel for what the author's trying to say. It is ‘nostalgia for foreign things’ and it manufactures dangerous ideas, including a ‘splattering of truths’ about ‘a story about a swan with a bone’.In this surreal prelude, Wright introduces the basic elements of her unlikely love story about a girl’s affair with the northern skies and her quest to regain sovereignty over her own brain. This book is written in that way. There she fills Oblivia’s head with stories of swans. The novel has been translated into French.“A goddess who had dragged herself out of the ocean then become an ordinary old woman.”“So my brain is as stuffed as some old broken-down Commodore you see left in the bush.” In a world gone haywire thanks to climate change, nobody belongs anywhere anymore. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousa
We may have to stay home and stay still, but through t...This I going to be hard to explain, because I am going to refer to a book with ghosts and alternative, maybe split realities and animals who are sentient and not sentient at the same time and a weird jumping around sense of time and place as a very horrifyingly believable book.
It is about the history of this continent as told through the history of Wiradjuri culture. A single perspective becomes the singular perspective, which is how colonial literature came to skew mainstream cultural understandings of that period. Two more strangers appear at the swamp: a lone black swan, the first ever seen on this country, and an Aboriginal elder who looks like Mick Jagger and comes to heal the country from dust and drought.The first chapter, ‘Dust Cycle’, introduces Mother Nature – or ‘the Mother Catastrophe of flood, fire, drought and blizzard’ – and reintroduces the prologue’s narrator with an equation: ‘Ignis Fatuus = Foolish Fire. This book concerns itself with our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly the large deviations. Not merely outstanding, this slotted into my top ten before I'd finished the opening.I won't pretend I fully understood everything, but there was a beautiful rhythm to the lyrical prose.
Mirandi Riwoe seems determined to widen that aperture and, then, to shift the perspective entirely.In relentless succession, Yumna Kassab’s fictions scrutinise the psychopolitics of displacement in a political landscape fortified by a warrant for Islamophobia.
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