Spinifex & Sunflowers [electronic resource]
Avan Judd Stallard2018
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Nick Harris has been drifting for years - until the day he finds himself amid
red dirt and razor wire, a refugee-prison guard in a detention center. Nick is
no crusader and no bleeding-heart. He's just a man in debt who needs a job. Time
passes slowly behind the wire, no matter who you are. To distract themselves,
the asylum seekers tell Nick about their lives and cultures, and the families
they have left behind. They steal from him with good humour, and swear at him
with bad. Nick breaks all the rules: slacking off when he guards the cordial
machine, swimming with crocodiles, brawling with locals, romancing workmates.
And then there is the cardinal sin - becoming friends with the detainees. ---
The novel is a realistic window into the hidden world of immigration detention
centres, drawn from the experience of a former guard. It is one man's vision,
looking through the wire at the people locked inside our desert prisons, and
looking out at the people who put them there.
Main title:
Spinifex & Sunflowers [electronic resource] / Avan Judd Stallard
Author:
Avan Judd Stallard, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fremantle Press, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (1 piece, 344 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781925591002
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
433843
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |