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22 reviewsWinner of the 2023 Queensland Award for Literary Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award
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Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language & scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe & a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis & the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies & scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China.
One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white & powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory & language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression & disadvantage, & a fable for the end of days.
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Wright’s Praiseworthy is a phantasmagorical epic following one family contending with interconnected crises amidst a mysterious cloud encroaching on their Northern Australian town, heralding both an ecological catastrophe & a gathering of the ancestors. A cry of outrage against oppression & disadvantage & a fable for the end of days, Praiseworthy pushes allegory & language to its limit.
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Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria, The Swan Book, & Praiseworthy. Wright has published three works of nonfiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; & Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth.
