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Main : Australia, climate change, fiction, literary
ISBN: 9781742199627 192 pp
Locust Girl: a lovesong
Merlinda Bobis
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Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife, except across the border. One night, a village is bombed after its men attempt to cross the border. Nine-year old Amedea is buried underground and sleeps to survive. Ten years later, she wakes with a locust embedded in her brow. This political fable is a girl’s magical journey through the border. The border has cut the human heart. Can she repair it with the story of a small life? This is the Locust Girl’s dream, her lovesong—
For those walking to the border for dear life
And those guarding the border for dear life
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Awards
Shortlisted: 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award Winner 2016 - Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in English
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There were many fine and stylistically accomplished works among this year's entries, but the distinctiveness, sweep and visual power of this short novel set it apart. Bobis’ fabulist, indeed fabulous, narrative enables the reader to imagine what it might look, smell and feel like to be treated as less than fully human. It asserts boldly that in a world seemingly devoid of rationality and logic, a young girl’s dream or a hallucinatory vision may well offer a means of maintaining hope, dignity and identity. Read the judges report here. , Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
The result is a book that can be read with pleasure for its language alone, and which subtly and surely subverts the status quo. Bobis messes with our minds, in the very best way.
, The Sydney Morning Herald
So often a work of fiction can tell the truth better than a recital of facts can ever do. In the talented hands of Merlinda Bobis some of the world's most pressing issues are brought to the surface. Readers of Locust Girl will be stimulated to think and act differently, while enjoying a rich and beautifully constructed narrative that transcends culture and speaks to the heart. Tim Costello, CEO World Vision Australia
Table of Contents
Once upon a time
Singing: Three years later
Love
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