The Settlement
Author: Serong, Jock
ISBN: 9781922458797
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of Van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them-from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country.
The orphans Whelk and Pipi, fighting for their survival against the malevolent old man they know as the Catechist, watch as almost everything proves resistant to the Commandant's will. The wind, the spread of disease, the strange black dog that floats in on the prow of a wrecked ship...But above all the chief, the leader of the exiles, before whom the Commandant performs a sordid dance of intimacy and betrayal.
ISBN: 9781922458797
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of Van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them-from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country.
The orphans Whelk and Pipi, fighting for their survival against the malevolent old man they know as the Catechist, watch as almost everything proves resistant to the Commandant's will. The wind, the spread of disease, the strange black dog that floats in on the prow of a wrecked ship...But above all the chief, the leader of the exiles, before whom the Commandant performs a sordid dance of intimacy and betrayal.
