Name: Taboo: A Novel
Price: 26.76 EUR
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Author: Kim Scott
ISBN: 9781618731692

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kim Scott

Publisher

Small Beer Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781618731692

Synopsis "Taboo: A Novel "

From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years . . .Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. Taboo won four literary awards, was longlisted for four and shortlisted for three more. It is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.

Kim Scott

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Kim was a coach for CEOs at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and, before that, led teams at AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick at Google. Early in her career, Kim ran a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and opened a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.

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