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Ruby-Eyed Coucal

Ruby-Eyed Coucal

by Bruce Pascoe
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/1996
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This novel's main characters are Fox, who has fled Australia following a possible murder charge and is in Irian Jaya fighting with freedom fighters, and his daughter Maree, who is trying to find him. Pascoe paints a vivid picture of the dispossession of the indigenous people of Irian Jaya and the fate of transmigrasi settlers.
ISBN:
9781875641291
9781875641291
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-1996
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
252
Dimensions (mm):
198x131mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian Indigenous writer. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher.

His books include Fog a Dox, a book for young adults that won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013, Convincing Ground about the Convincing Ground massacre, and Dark Emu, a book that challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.

In 2018, Bruce Pascoe was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

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