The Swan Book - Alexis Wright

Category: Fantasy, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Aboriginal Australian Author Futuristic

Written by Alexis Wright
Read by Jacqui Katona
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The Swan Book
By: Alexis Wright
Narrated by: Jacqui Katona
Release date
28-10-2016
Language
English
Format
Audiobook
Length
13 hrs and 1 min
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Categories
Literature & Fiction

The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award.The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of first lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city.The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wright’s previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning best seller. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the wild energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations; and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale.©2013 Alexis Wright (P)2016 Bolinda