Monday, March 2
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Chosen by: Richard
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Australian writer with indigenous Australian ancestry.
Her eighth and latest novel Edenglassie is set across two timelines in Queensland. In 19th Century early colonial times Mulanyin arrives in Brisbane - then known as Edenglassie - as the British begin to exert their grip on his historic homeland.
In the 21st Century Grandma Eddie finds herself in hospital after a fall, and begins to tell the story of her and her community to a white journalist - much to the disapproval of her granddaughter Winona.
Edenglassie has won multiple awards in Australia, as well as being short and longlisted for others in and outside the country, and has cemented Lucashenko's reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of aboriginal Australia.
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Chosen by: Richard
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Australian writer with indigenous Australian ancestry.
Her eighth and latest novel Edenglassie is set across two timelines in Queensland. In 19th Century early colonial times Mulanyin arrives in Brisbane - then known as Edenglassie - as the British begin to exert their grip on his historic homeland.
In the 21st Century Grandma Eddie finds herself in hospital after a fall, and begins to tell the story of her and her community to a white journalist - much to the disapproval of her granddaughter Winona.
Edenglassie has won multiple awards in Australia, as well as being short and longlisted for others in and outside the country, and has cemented Lucashenko's reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of aboriginal Australia.
