Stone Sky Gold Mountain [electronic resource]
Riwoe, Mirandi2020
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Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Main title:
Stone Sky Gold Mountain [electronic resource] / Mirandi Riwoe
Author:
Riwoe, Mirandi, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Queensland Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of the novella The Fish Girl, which won Seizure's Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Queensland Literary Award's UQ Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies and lives in Brisbane.
ISBN:
9780702263903
Language:
English
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BRN:
673094
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