| Description |
343 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"After a decade in Europe August Gondiwindi returns to Australia for the funeral of her much-loved grandfather, Albert, at Prosperous House, her only real home and also a place of great grief and devastation. Leading up to his death Poppy Gondiwindi has been compiling a dictionary of the language he was forbidden from speaking after being sent to Prosperous House as a child. Poppy was the family storyteller and August is desperate to find the precious book that he had spent his last energies compiling. The Yield also tells the story of Reverend Greenleaf, who recalls founding the first mission at Prosperous House and recording the language of the first residents, before being interred as an enemy of the people, being German, during the First World War. The Yield, in exquisite prose, carefully and delicately wrestles with questions of environmental degradation, pre-white contact agriculture, theft of language and culture, water, religion and consumption within the realm of a family mourning the death of a beloved man."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Fiction
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Wiradjuri language -- Fiction
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Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction
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Grief -- Fiction
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Fiction
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Fiction
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Clergy -- Australia -- Fiction
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Wiradjuri language D10
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Australian fiction
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| ISBN |
9780143785750 |
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0143785753 |
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