That deadman dance
Scott, Kim, 1957-2011
Book
In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please. He befriends the European arrivals, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family, and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine. But slowly-by design and by hazard-things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is progressing. Livestock mysteriously start to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are "accidents" and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will forever change the future of his country.
Main title:
That deadman dance / Kim Scott.
Author:
Scott, Kim, 1957-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Sydney : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2011.©2010
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previously published: Sydney: Picador, 2010.
Awards:
Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award
ISBN:
9780330404235 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
215141