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Carpentaria / by Alexis Wright.

Carpentaria / by Alexis Wright.
Carpentaria /
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership.

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Adult Fiction   Kempsey . Available .  
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Record Number 336468
ISBN 1920882170
9781920882174
9781922725400
Author Wright, Alexis
Title Carpentaria / by Alexis Wright.
Publication details Giramondo, Artarmon, N.S.W. : 2006.
Pagination etc. 519 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents note Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007
Summary Note Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership.
Subject Aboriginal fiction
Australia fiction
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