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The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award by Winch, Tara June is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Profoundly moving & exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people & a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was & what endures, & a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling & identity."Take courage when you read this book. You'll need it. Winch asks big questions of this country. Is the answer within us?" — Bruce PascoeKnowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people & everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief & burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather & into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river."Winch’s urgent novel is a chance to listen. A moving & evocative story of Aboriginal Australia

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Author

Winch, Tara June

Publisher

Penguin Random House Australia

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760899462

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction