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Carpentaria : a novel / Alexis Wright.

by Wright, Alexis, 1950-

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Atria International, [2009].

Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.

Queensland -- Fiction.

9781439157848 (trade pbk.)

1439157847 (trade pbk.)

x, 517 p. ; 23 cm.

"Originally published in Australia in 2006 by Giramondo Publishing Company"--T.p. verso.

IN the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, battle lines have been drawn in the disputes among the powerful Phantom family of the Westend Pricklebush, Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob, and the white officials of neighboring towns. Trapped between politics and principle, past and present, the indigenous tribes fight to protect their natural resources, sacred sites, and, above all, their people. Steeped in myth and magical realism, Wright's hypnotic storytelling exposes the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life. Carpentaria teems with extraordinary, larger-than-life characters who transcend their circumstances and challenge assumptions about the downtrodden "other."

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Social commentary fiction.

Literary fiction.

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