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Praiseworthy (Paperback): Alexis Wright Praiseworthy (Paperback)
Alexis Wright
R596 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out a solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal and Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and both a sharp satire and a thoughtful fable for the end of days.

The Swan Book (Paperback): Alexis Wright The Swan Book (Paperback)
Alexis Wright
R464 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Carpentaria: Alexis Wright Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
R517 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R27 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Carpentaria (Paperback): Alexis Wright Carpentaria (Paperback)
Alexis Wright 1
R405 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. By turns operatic and surreal, Wright's stunning and richly imagined storytelling is a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. Her extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the rubbish-dump and the fish-embalming king of time, Angel Day and Normal Phantom - stride like giants in this storm-swept world.

Praiseworthy: Alexis Wright Praiseworthy
Alexis Wright
R629 R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Save R49 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Swan Book (Paperback): Alexis Wright The Swan Book (Paperback)
Alexis Wright 1
R306 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wright's previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning bestseller. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the wild energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations; and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements, drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale, has Oblivia Ethylene in the company of amazing characters like Aunty Bella Donna of the Champions, the Harbour Master, Big Red and the Mechanic, a talking monkey called Rigoletto, three genies with doctorates, and throughout, the guiding presence of swans.

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