Taboo

Kim Scott, Kim Scott

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ABC/ Bolinda Audio
28 February 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Bargains; Audiobooks - Fiction

Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place - the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.

But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.

We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction - and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.

By: Kim Scott
Read by: Kim Scott
Imprint: ABC/ Bolinda Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 205g
ISBN: 9781489426574
ISBN 10: 1489426574
Publication Date: 28 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Taboo

"'This is a complex, thoughtful, and exceptionally generous offering by a master storyteller at the top of his game.' -- The Guardian ""Ambitious, unsentimental [and] morally challenging.' -- Sydney Morning Herald 'Scott is one of the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this continent today, with great courage and formidable narrative prowess – and Taboo is his most daring novel yet.' -- Sydney Review of Books"

Winner of New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year 2018
Winner of New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers' Prize 2018