Taboo /

Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white...

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Main Author: Scott, Kim, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2019.
Edition:First Small Beer Press edition.
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