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Taboo

By Kim Scott
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Taboo centres on a young woman caught in a harrowing family drama spanning two centuries, weaving together an act of brutal violence with a profound act of reconciliation. This powerfully charged, award-winning novel by Kim Scott delves deep into the complexities of history and personal identity.
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From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...

From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...

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Taboo seizes and will not release. Robert Macfarlane

One may as well begin, 'Once upon a time...' Except this is no fairytale.

Kim Scott's powerfully charged, award-winning novel thrusts a young woman centre-stage in a vicious drama that has been playing in her family for generations — an act of extraordinary violence, and an act of extraordinary reconciliation, separated by two hundred years.

Winner: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019
Winner: NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018
Winner: Queensland Literary Awards 2018
Finalist: Colin Roderick Literary Award 2018
Finalist: Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018
Shortlisted for: Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2018
Longlisted for: ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2018
Longlisted for: Indie Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2018

Praise for Taboo

'Remarkable' The Australian

'An extraordinary novel' Robert Macfarlane

'A master storyteller at the top of his game' Guardian

'One of the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this continent today' Sydney Review of Books

'Stunning' Saturday Paper

'Undaunted and daring as ever' Sydney Morning Herald

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760784898

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 July 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Picador Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 201.0mm

Weight: 238g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist. Benang (1999) was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia's premier literary prize, among many others. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story Project (www.wirlomin.com.au), which has published a number of bilingual picture books. A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott (Camden House, 2016) deals with aspects of his career in education and literature. He received an Australian Centenary Medal and was 2012 West Australian of the Year. Kim is currently Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.

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