The Yield (16pt Large Print Edition) - Winch, Tara June
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The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land - 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. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield 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.
Autorenporträt
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. A 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016. In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage was published in 2016. After the Carnage was longlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction, shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection. She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary, Carriberrie, which screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and is touring internationally.
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Winch has built her novel with subtlety and strength. This is a complex, satisfying book, both story and testimony. The Yield works to reclaim a history that never should have been lost in the first place. - The Guardian

"Unmissable." - The Guardian

"[A] wily, appealing novel....A testament to the saving grace of language itself, and to the corrosive consequences when it falls out of use and disappears." - Wall Street Journal

A lyrical, courageous storyteller, Winch redefines Australia in this generational tale of reclamation and hope. - Sunday Times (London)

"A deep and affecting novel, [and] one of the summer's literary must-reads." - Bustle

"Winch makes a strong statement, beautifully rendered." - Library Journal (starred review)

Take courage when you read this book. You'll need it. Winch asks big questions ... Is the answer within us? - Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu

"The Peoples, languages and wildlife of Australia have been purposely decimated for a great many years. The history of this vast land is a tragic one and this young Indigenous author has taken it on in a graceful act of retrieval and witness. The dictionary and use of Wiradjuri words is transporting. Birrabuwawanha-to return, to come back. The Yield is a fine novel, and one not without hope." - Joy Williams, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Quick and the Dead

A lyrical and generous writer, Winch's prose shimmers through this extraordinary tale of cruelty, dislocation, love and resilience. - Judging Panel for the Prime Minister's Literary Award

Already a best-seller in Australia, Winch's second novel is a clear-eyed look at the experiences of native people and the ways in which history is inherited through generations. - Booklist

A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present. - Kate Morton, internationally bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter

"The Yield is, by far, the Australian novel of 2020 that you won't want to miss." - Book Riot

"The humorous undercurrent to some of Winch's short stories has no place here, and this is a more serious work than her previous books-but while she may have developed a more sophisticated style, her work is no less vivid, and this is an astonishingly elegant and powerful second novel." - Melanie Kembrey, Sydney Morning Herald

A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia. - Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Mesmerising and important. - Melissa Lucashenko, 2019 Miles Franklin award-winning author of Too Much Lip

Winch offers a stark account of how Aboriginal peoples are ignored, abused and their cultural beliefs stomped on, [but] The Yield's final message is one of hope. - Buzzfeed

The Yield is a story of hope and preservation - Buzzfeed

The Yield sings up language, history, home, blood - all the important stuff. - Paul Kelly, author of How to Make Gravy

A work of immense scope and sensitivity. - Jessie Cole, author of Deeper Water

Reap the wisdom this book yields. - The Saturday Paper

The Yield is the work of a major talent. It hypnotises with its lyricism, with the juxtaposition of horror and hope, and the candid look at family, country and history. It's a work to be savoured, to be enjoyed in the sun on a winter's day, and then to be shared-as widely as possible! - Madelaine Dickie, National Indigenous Times

The Yield...is a poignant story of personal and cultural reclamation and survival. - The Australian

As August navigates her connection to home, to family, and seeks to save what is left of it, the three stories collide in a beautiful ending. The story touches on many types of trauma that have been inflicted on Indigenous Australian's from the colonization of Australia. Beautifully written, this was a deeply moving story that showed that regardless of the brokenness, the spirit of culture is so much stronger. - ReadWithWine

"A brilliant novel: deeply thought provoking, challenging, intelligent, sophisticated in style, and beautifully written, despite the brutality and sorrow that the history, and narrative, is awash with." - Theresa Smith Writes

Nothing short of a landmark Australian novel, simultaneously timeless and yet urgently a story for now, with sentences that'll knock the wind out of your gut. - Benjamin Law, author of The Family Law

The Yield is a bleak and beautiful book that eloquently phrases the weight of history, with an ultimately uplifting sensibility at its heart: that of the power of storytelling across thousands of years. - Anne Barnetson, Australian Bookseller + Publisher

Winch's urgent novel is a chance to listen. A moving and evocative story of Aboriginal Australia. Hope shines through this contemporary novel of a culture dispossessed and the importance of preserving language. Winch is a Wiradjuri author and here she writes about the Wiradjuri language which was once thought to be extinct but has now been preserved. The Yield is current, timely and an important must-Read for all Australians. - Dean, Better Read Than Dead

It's another mesmerizing tour de force, throwing a spotlight on Australia's broken heart. - Juliet Rieden, Australian Womens Weekly

This is a big hearted, hopeful book. More hopeful, maybe, than we deserve. - Miles Allinson, Readings

I just finished this book and it is ABSOLUTELY extraordinary. Intensely moving, gripping, brutal and yet so full of generosity. I learned so much especially about the lyrical Wiradjuri language. Brilliant. - Annabel Crabb, author of The Wife Drought

The Yield uniquely and powerfully shows how revolutionary a shift from an imported language to an Indigenous language might be ... such aesthetically and ethically ambitious writing. Reap the wisdom this book yields. - Maria Takolander, The Saturday Paper


This is an astonishingly elegant and powerful second novel. - Louise Swinn, The Sydney Morning Herald

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