The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award
Author: Winch, Tara June
ISBN: 9781761620621
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year first published: 14 Jul 2026
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
The powerful novel of truthtelling as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert P#8216;PoppyP#8217; Gondiwindi takes pen to paper, determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.Plt;brPgt;August Gondiwindi returns home for her grandfatherP#8217;s burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends, she endeavours to save their land P#8211; 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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;The YieldPlt;/iPgt; is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.
ISBN: 9781761620621
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year first published: 14 Jul 2026
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
The powerful novel of truthtelling as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert P#8216;PoppyP#8217; Gondiwindi takes pen to paper, determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.Plt;brPgt;August Gondiwindi returns home for her grandfatherP#8217;s burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends, she endeavours to save their land P#8211; 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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;The YieldPlt;/iPgt; is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.
