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by Larissa Behrendt
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Publication Date: 03/05/2004

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A story of homecoming, this engrossing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country.

Candice arrives at 'the place where the rivers meet', the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted.

As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away. Garibooli, now renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master's night-time visits.

Her displacement carries into the lives of her seven children -- their stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having dark skin in post-war Australia.

Vividly rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice. Home is a powerful first novel from an award-winning author who understands the power of stories to bridge past and present.

ISBN:
9780702234071
9780702234071
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-05-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
328
Dimensions (mm):
201x130x18mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt is Professor of Indigenous Research and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian and has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues.

She is also the author of two novels: Home, which won the 2002 David Unaipon Award and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia and South Pacific); and Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. She is the Ambassador of the Gawura Aboriginal Campus at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney and a board member of the Sydney Story Factory, a literacy program in Redfern.

She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.

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