A novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape /5(43). · Alexis Wright. The Swan Book quantity. Buy for $ The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal peoples still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. 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, Availability: In stock. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book is a significant addition to literary speculative fiction. It's a genre-bending masterpiece of evocative prose and powerful imagery that blends ancient myths and legends in a powerful and thought-provoking way. It's a novel that has both style and substance/5().
About the Author. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published two works of non-fiction, Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council, and Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory in addition to the landmark work. The Swan Book Alexis Wright. The Swan Book is a post-apocalyptical novel based on the suffering of Indigenous Australians throughout history. The author, Alexis Wright - an indigenous Australian herself - based the story on her own experiences and mistreatments. The story. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book is hypnotic and disturbing a very unusual book This is definitely one of the books Sir Francis Bacon would recommend that we chew and digest." A Bookish Type Rich with allegory and symbolism, this wild, explosive story blends the myths and legends of numerous cultures in a dystopian near future.
About The Book. A hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down—where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book is a significant addition to literary speculative fiction. It's a genre-bending masterpiece of evocative prose and powerful imagery that blends ancient myths and legends in a powerful and thought-provoking way. It's a novel that has both style and substance. The Swan Book is Wright’s most ambitious novel to date. If Plains of Promise is about the fate of three women severed from their ancestral land and Carpentaria is about a community’s battle to prevent the mining of its ancestral land, The Swan Book is concerned with the entire Earth.
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