Tara June Winch

"Originally published ... in Australia in 2019 by Penguin Random House Australia"--Copyright page.

The Yield

Ten years after the much-acclaimed Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch returns with an extraordinary new collection of stories A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced man starts a running group with members of an online forum for recovering addicts. Ranging from New York to Istanbul, from Pakistan to Australia, these unforgettable stories chart the distances in their characters' lives - whether they have grown apart from the ones they love, been displaced from their homeland, or are struggling to reconcile their dreams with reality. A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the impressive evolution of one of our finest young writers.

After the Carnage

When May's mother dies suddenly, her and her brother Billy's loss leaves them both searching for their place in the world. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.

Swallow the Air

Swallow the Air (Black Australian Writing)

A Novel

Een hartverscheurend, hoopvol verhaal over de strijd tussen cultuur en macht in hedendaags Australië. In de culturele roman ‘Het spiegelwoordenboek’ keert Tara June Winch terug naar haar eigen Wiradjuri-roots en laat ze de verwevenheid van taal, traditie en identiteit zien. Auguste, een jonge vrouw van Aboriginal-afkomst, besluit naar Australië te reizen voor de begrafenis van haar opa. Hier gaat ze de strijd aan met machtige partijen die haar dorp en daarmee de taal en cultuur van haar mensen dreigen te vernietigen. Auguste ontdekt dat haar grootvader een boek over de cultuur van hun volk aan het schrijven was – en dat dit misschien wel de sleutel is tot het behoud van alles wat haar lief is. ‘Een baanbrekende roman voor zwart en wit Australië.’ – Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize-winnend auteur van ‘De smalle weg naar het verre noorden’ ‘Een zeer origineel fictiewerk van een van onze meest opwindende hedendaagse schrijvers.’ – Juryrapport NSW Premier’s Literary Awards ‘Een buitengewoon verhaal vol wreedheid, ontwrichting, liefde en veerkracht, dat glanst en schittert door Winch’ rijke proza.’ – Juryrapport Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Het spiegelwoordenboek

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing 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 and 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 and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.

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