Book Club in a Box : The yield

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Label

Book Club in a Box : The yield

Title remainder

The yield

Statement of responsibility

Tara June Winch

Creator

• trueWinch, Tara June

Author

• trueWinch, Tara June

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• All Australian Indigenous Material.
• Australian fiction
• Australian.
• Book club in a box
• Clergy -- Australia -- Fiction
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australian literature
• Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Fiction
• New South Wales -- Fiction
• Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
• Sacred space -- Australia -- Fiction
• Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Fiction
• Wiradjuri language -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Fiction

Genre

• Book club in a box
• Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Aboriginal Australian literature

Language

• D10
• eng
• aus
• eng

Summary

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land -- a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity

Cataloging source

VSL

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Language note

Includes a dictionary of Albert Gondiwindi [Translation of Wiradjuri language] (pages 313-338)

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult