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A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with a young, city-based
lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at
"the place where the rivers meet", the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her
grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice's
Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away.Garibooli, renamed
Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from
the terror of the master's night-time visits. Her displacement carries into the
lives of her seven children - their stories witness to the impact of orphanage
life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia. Vividly
rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice.Home is
a powerful and intelligent first novel from an author who understands both the
capacity of language to suppress and the restorative potency of stories that
bridge past and present.
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Home [electronic resource] / Larissa Behrendt
Author:
Larissa Behrendt, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Queensland Press, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (1 piece, 256 pages,)
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Platform: pdfMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780702258770
Language:
English
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BRN:
435832
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