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Taboo: Kim Scott.

Taboo: Kim Scott.
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General Fiction   Taree . Available .  
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General Fiction   Gloucester . On Loan . 18 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781925483741
Shelf Location F/SCO
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Author Scott, Kim, 1957-
Title Taboo / Kim Scott.
Publication Details Sydney, NSW:
©2017 Picador,
Collation 287 pages : 24 cm. ;
Abstract/Summary Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.
Subject General fiction
Australian fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
Nyunga (Australian people) -- History -- Fiction
Australian authors -- Fiction
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