Song of the crocodile

Resource Information

The work Song of the crocodile represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Song of the crocodile

Statement of responsibility

Nardi Simpson

Creator

• Simpson, Nardi

Author

• Simpson, Nardi

Subject

• Australia -- Race relations -- Fiction
• Australian fiction
• City and town life -- Australia -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australian literature
• Small cities -- Australia -- Fiction
• Secrecy -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Aboriginal Australian literature

Language

eng

Summary

Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear.As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence

Cataloging source

ANL:PDS

Dewey number

A823.4

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult