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Capricornia (Paperback)
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Capricornia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R372
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A saga of life in the Northern Territories and the clash of white
and Aborigine cultures - one of Australia's all-time best-selling
novels and an inspiration for Baz Luhrmann's lavish film
'AUSTRALIA'. Capricornia has been described as one of Australia's
'great novels', a sharply observed chronicle about life in the
Northern Territory of Australia and the inhumane treatment suffered
by Aborigines at the hands of white men. The story is immense and
rambling, laced with humour that is often as bitter and as harsh as
the terrain in which it is set, and follows with irony the fortunes
(and otherwise) of a range of Outback characters over a span of
generations. Through their story is reflected the story of
Australia, the clash of personalities and cultures that provide the
substance on which today's society is founded. Above all, however,
this is a novel of protest and of compassion - for the Aborigines
and half-bloods of Australia's 'last frontier'. Sprawling,
explosive, thronged with characters, plots and sub-plots,
Capricornia is without doubt one of the best known and widely read
Australian novels of the last 70 years. When it was first published
it was acclaimed as 'a turning point', an 'outstanding work of
social protest'. Its message is as penetrating today as it was in
the 1930s when Herbert himself was official 'Protector of
Aborigines' at Darwin.
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