Praiseworthy
- Australian LiteratureAborigines Literature
- Categories:Classics Contemporary
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:April,2023
- Pages:736
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- Size:148mm×210mm
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Review
——Tara June Winch
"I’m awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of [Alexis Wright’s] work…she is vital on the subject of land and people."
——Robert Macfarlane, The New York Times Book Review
"Monumental…Praiseworthy blew me away…If you think you know what assimilation is, you should read Praiseworthy and think again."
——Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Australian Book Review
"An abundant odyssey that contains a formidable vision of Australia’s future. This is a long journey through the imagination, a novel both urgent and deeply contemplated…The rich interrelations of ancestral spirits, larger-than-life characters, and Country all derive from the Aboriginal traditions of storytelling. But there are also signs of literary influence from every compass point on the map, including, most notably, the surrealism and magic realism of writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
——Jack Cameron Stanton, The Age
"Praiseworthy is Alexis Wright’s most formidable act of imaginative synthesis yet…a hero’s journey for an age of global warming, a devastating story of young love caught between two laws, and an extended elegy and ode to Aboriginal law and sovereignty."
——Preti Taneja, New Statesman
Feature
SHORTLISTED: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance, Queensland Literary Awards 2023