Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Bib ID:
- 8039524
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beneba Clarke, Maxine, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2014
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 456KB
- ISBN:
- 9780733632570 (EPUB)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access : Available online.
- Summary:
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In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories. The book is called Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving . . . In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings.
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- Also available in print.
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- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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