Benang

By Kim Scott

Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather’s enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first white man born’, he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?

• A beautifully presented collector’s edition of Australia’s first Indigenous
  Miles Franklin Award winning book. Benang also won the Kate Challis
  RAKA Award and Western Australian Premier’s Book Award.
• Benang has been in print continuously since it was first published in
  1999.

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