Yilkari : a desert suite
Rothwell, Nicolas2025
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A Siberian composer named Valentin comes to a remote roadhouse in the Western Desert to find the narrator of Yilkari, whom he first met the night the Berlin Wall fell. They travel on together, leading us deeper into the desert. Later, he takes us driving on hidden tracks in search of other characters and other stories that transport the mind. He visits the magic mountain, even though it is not on any maps, whose peak seems to draw the light into itself, the heart of life. Yilkari reveals its secrets, such secrets as it can reveal, through the conversations of its characters and their journeys into landscapes in which space and time are aspects of each other. Their exchanges touch on ways of knowing and speaking and imagining that are only within reach in the desert.
Main title:
Yilkari : a desert suite / Nicolas Rothwell & Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson.
Author:
Rothwell, Nicolas, author
Work:
Imprint:
Wurundjeri Country ; Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2025.©2025
Collation:
276 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781923058422 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Composers -- Russia -- FictionRussians -- Western Australia -- Western Desert -- FictionAboriginal Australians -- FictionMountains -- FictionWestern Desert (W.A.) -- FictionWestern Australia -- Description and travel -- FictionAustralian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authorsLiterature and stories - Fiction
BRN:
487698