The Yield
Author(s): Tara June Winch
Fiction | Miles Franklin Shortlist 2020 | Stella Prize Shortlist 2020
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.
Product Information
Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Award. Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal Award Shortlisted for the VPLA Shortlisted for the Stella Prize Shortlisted for the PM Literary Award for Fiction 2020
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 31 January 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tara June Winch
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 352