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Book Club in a Box : The yield, Tara June Winch

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
10 volumes (343 pages, 1 map, c24 cm)
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • "This novel contains the language of the Wiradjuri people. Before colonisation there were two hundred and fifty distinct languages in Australia that subdivided into six hundred dialects. The Wiradjuri language is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup and has been reclaimed and preserved through the efforts of Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM and linguist Dr John Rudder."--Author's Note, page 339
Isbn
9780143785750
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Label
Book Club in a Box : The yield
Title
Book Club in a Box
Title remainder
The yield
Statement of responsibility
Tara June Winch
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
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
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Winch, Tara June
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
Language note
Includes a dictionary of Albert Gondiwindi [Translation of Wiradjuri language] (pages 313-338)
Literary form
novels
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Reminiscing in old age
  • Sacred space
  • Grief
  • Encyclopedias and dictionaries
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Clergy
  • Wiradjuri (Australian people)
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Wiradjuri language
  • Grandfathers
  • New South Wales
Target audience
adult
Label
Book Club in a Box : The yield, Tara June Winch
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Publication
Copyright
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • "This novel contains the language of the Wiradjuri people. Before colonisation there were two hundred and fifty distinct languages in Australia that subdivided into six hundred dialects. The Wiradjuri language is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup and has been reclaimed and preserved through the efforts of Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM and linguist Dr John Rudder."--Author's Note, page 339
Accompanying material
3 information sheets.
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • cartographic image
  • text
Content type code
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000065335863
Dimensions
in plastic box 35 x 28 x 14 cm. +
Extent
10 volumes (343 pages, 1 map, c24 cm)
Isbn
9780143785750
Lccn
be2019024613
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1083677578
Label
Book Club in a Box : The yield, Tara June Winch
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • "This novel contains the language of the Wiradjuri people. Before colonisation there were two hundred and fifty distinct languages in Australia that subdivided into six hundred dialects. The Wiradjuri language is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup and has been reclaimed and preserved through the efforts of Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM and linguist Dr John Rudder."--Author's Note, page 339
Accompanying material
3 information sheets.
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • cartographic image
  • text
Content type code
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000065335863
Dimensions
in plastic box 35 x 28 x 14 cm. +
Extent
10 volumes (343 pages, 1 map, c24 cm)
Isbn
9780143785750
Lccn
be2019024613
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1083677578

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