The Swan Book - Alexis Wright
Category: Novel
Narrator: Jacqui Katona
Tags: Novel, Sci-Fi, Adults, Literature
Original publication date: 2013 Audiobook release date: 2016 Publisher: Bolinda audio Audiobook duration: 13:01:26, -, Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014, The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change., It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city., The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wrights previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning best-seller. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the wild energy and humou
