Benang - 25th Anniversary edition

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?

• This 25th anniversary edition features an updated foreword from Kim Scott and an introduction from Philip Morrissey
• Benang won the 1999 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, the 2000 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2001 Kate Challis RAKA Award
• Benang has been in print continuously since it was first published in
  1999