Taboo by Kim Scott

Taboo by Kim Scott

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781925483741
Author: Kim Scott
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304 pages
Period: 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

From Kim Scott, a two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years...

Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman.

They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.

We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land.

This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair. (back cover)

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