Description
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. Winner, Western Australian Premier's Book Award, 2000; Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000; Short listed, Queensland Premier's Award, 2000; Long listed, Dublin Impac Literary Award, 2000; Short listed, Tasmania Pacific Literary Award, 2001; Winner, Kate Challis Award, 2001.