- Title:
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The White Earth
- Written by:
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Andrew McGahan
- Read by:
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Edwin Hodgeman
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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12 hours 41 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2019
- Available Date:
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May 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489498403
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Family Sagas
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Bestseller
Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005
Winner The Age Book of the Year Award / Fiction 2004
'The saga of the McIvors is nothing less than a grim and supremely entertaining take on colonialism in Australia and the tortured, stained hearts of all its New World cousins.'
Entertainment Weekly
'McGahan scrutinizes his characters without puppetry, and his prose moves with grace, smoothness and a gift for setting.'
San Francisco Chronicle
The award-winning saga that has become an essential addition to modern Australian literature.
His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the charity of his unknown uncle – an embittered old man encamped in the ruins of a once great station homestead, Kuran House.
It's a baffling and sinister new world for the boy, a place of decay and secret histories. His uncle is obsessed by a long life of decline and by a dark quest for revival, his mother is desperate for a wealth and security she has never known, and all their hopes it seems come to rest upon William's young shoulders.
But as the past and present of Kuran Station unravel and merge together, the price of that inheritance may prove to be the downfall of them all.
The White Earth is a haunting, disturbing and cautionary tale.
'The White Earth is an ambitious and multilayered novel that ranges across the 150-year history of white settlement on the Darling Downs. It touches on such recent political issues as the passage of native title legislation, the "history wars" and the growing alienation and resentment of rural white Australia - sentiments that, as we now know, provided a natural constituency for One Nation. But The White Earth also has all the trappings of a classic supernatural tale, and McGahan seamlessly blends the factual elements with the preternatural dimensions - the ghosts of black and white that haunt the landscape.'
The Age
'Absorbing, disturbing, almost gothic, by turns, as McGahan depicts the inextricability of family and the primal hunger for finding and naming home.'
The Boston Globe