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Benang Author: Kim Scott

ISBN: 9781863682404 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 504 Published: 1 April 1999 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 20.7 x 13.9 x 3.3 Description: I tell you that this story of my own is part of a much older story... one of a perpetual billowing from the sea, with its rhythm of return, return, remain... I offer these words, especially to those of you I embarrass, and who turn away from the shame of seeing me... We are still here, Benang.

'Benang is brilliant. It is a mature, complex, sweeping historical novel which will remind people of Rushdie, Carey and Grenville at their best. This is an absolute page turner and in the end we are left with a sense of joy and gratitude that such stories are still possible - that the silence has been broken.' - Sydney Morning Herald ' Benang soars to the level of superb storytelling with an emotional punch to the guts, not unlike Toni Morrison's Beloved.' - Weekend Australian 'Haunting and poignant, Benang pierces the heart even as it seeks to lance the savage bleeding of the wounds of white settlement in Australia.' - Canberra Times Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope an...

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