Marie Munkara

Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea is a candid, unflinching and moving story about reaching back into the past to find family and identity. A survivor of the Stolen Generations, taken from her Indigenous mother as a child and subjected to sexual and emotional abuse by her adoptive family, Marie Munkara was unaware of her Indigenous roots until she turned 28 and a baptismal card accidentally fell out of a book in her adoptive mother's house. This led to a heart-wrenching yet joyful journey to her mother in the Tiwi Islands and then to Arnhem Land where she was born.

Munkara tells the story with disarming honesty, presenting her Indigenous communities in all their complexity by refusing to leave out unflattering observations just as she includes the uproarious moments of camaraderie, flirting, marital disagreements and mishaps while hunting. At the heart of the book is a daughter's evolving relationship with a mother she never knew, as she comes to understand the ancient wisdom of this very flawed but loving parent. This memoir about searching for what makes us whole - and learning to let go - offers a poignant and often hilarious account of recent Australian history from a rare perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857987280
• Artikelnr.: 49990723

Autorenporträt

Of Rembarranga and Tiwi descent, Marie Munkara was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first novel, Every Secret Thing, won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territory Book of the Year in 2010. She has written two children's books, Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, and another novel, A Most Peculiar Act. Marie is presently working on the TV mini-series for Every Secret Thing and her next novel.