Nothing short of a landmark Australian novel, simultaneously timeless and yet urgently a story for now, with sentences that’ll knock the wind out of your gut. Jessie ColeĪ beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present. The Yield sings up language, history, home, blood - all the important stuff Paul KellyĪ work of immense scope and sensitivity. Quite simply, nobody has written anything quite like this before. It’s a fictional scenario which provides a breadth and depth of possibilities that Winch takes full advantage of-and the result is a work of dazzling originality, in structure, language, and intent. Winch asks big questions of this country. The Yield is, by far, the Australian novel of 2020 that you won’t want to miss.
But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. 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.
Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. He finds the words on the wind.Īugust Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death.
Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Award.
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