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Author Lucashenko, Melissa, 1967-, author

Title Edenglassie / Melissa Lucashenko
Published St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023
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Description 306 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Summary Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate centenarian Grannie Eddie, and sparks fly, but not always in the right direction. What nobody knows is how far the legacies of the past will reach into their modern lives. In this brilliant epic, Melissa Lucashenko torches Queensland's colonial myths, while reimagining an Australian future
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Subject Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Australian fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
SUBJECT Queensland -- Race relations -- History -- Fiction
Queensland -- History -- 1824-1900 -- Fiction
Queensland -- History -- 21st century -- Fiction
Genre/Form Reading nook.
Australian fiction
Australian fiction
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction
Indigenous collection
LC no. jb2023039931
ISBN 9780702266126 (paperback)