Category - Fiction / Action & Adventure
Format - Hardcover
Condition - New
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 13
Ships From - New Jersey
Est. Publication Date - Sep 2022
Seller Description
New hardcover of Benevolence by Julie Janson Book synopsis: For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Told through the fictional characterisation of Darug woman Muraging (Mary James), Benevolence is a compelling story of first contact. Born around 1813, Muraging is among the earliest Darug generations to experience the impact of British colonisation – a time of cataclysmic change and violence, but also remarkable survival and resistance. At an early age Muraging is given over to the Parramatta Native School by her Darug father. Fleeing the school in pursuit of love, she embarks on a journey of discovery and a search for a safe place to make her home. Spanning the years 1816–35, Benevolence is set around the Hawkesbury River area, the home of the Darug people, in Parramatta and Sydney. Julie Janson’s intensely visual prose interweaves historical events with detailed characterisation – she shatters stereotypes and gives voice to an Aboriginal experience of early-settlement. #hardcover#newbook#benevolence#historicalfiction#fiction#Australia#novel
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Benevolence: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063140950
Publisher Description
"How good it is to hear a Darug voice speaking of Darug history."--Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Prize Blending the mythical power of Téa Obreht and the epic ...
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