Now included in UQPs First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Mykaela Saunders, Plains of Promise is a masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize.In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queenslands far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominics Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivys life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for a citybased Aboriginal Coalition, visits the old Mission and learns of her mothers and grandmothers suffering there. Marys return reignites community anxieties, leading the Council of Elders to again turn to their spirit world.This stunning novel, from the only writer to win both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, showcases Alexis Wrights distinctive and farreaching talents.

Binding: N/A;416 pages; Publisher: University of Queensland Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 526.42 g; Dimensions: N/A

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