{"product_id":"9781922725431","title":"The Swan Book","description":"Author: Alexis Wright\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922725431\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginally published in 2014, Alexis Wright's classic novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccompanies the April release of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraiseworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Wright's first work of fiction since 2014.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. \u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her writing, which draws freely on myth and legend, finds hope in the bleakest situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the ALS Gold Medal and the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award, Stella Prize, NSW Premier's and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre.' - Elizabeth Lowry, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a novel written out of the very thing it describes: sovereignty, the sheer taken-for-granted fact of it...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is about the ethics of hope in our post-apocalyptic world.' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861510148254,"sku":"ADS-9781922725431","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922725431.jpg?v=1779253306","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922725431","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}