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  title info:
    title: Taboo
  name:
    name part: Scott, Kim
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fictional Work
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Romans.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Small Beer Press edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 287 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: 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 man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. Taboo won four literary awards, was longlisted for four and shortlisted for three more. It is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.
  note: Kim Scott.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at-we
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    geographic: Western Australia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Racism against Indigenous peoples
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Massacres
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Reconciliation
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Western Australia
    topic: Social life and customs
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Australie-Occidentale
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Australiens (Aborigènes)
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Racisme à l'égard des autochtones
    geographic: Australie
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Massacres
    geographic: Australie
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Réconciliation
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
  subject:
    topic: Massacres
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  subject:
    topic: Reconciliation
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    geographic: Western Australia
  classification: PR9619.3.S373 T33 2019
  classification: 823/.914
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Taboo
    name:
      name part: Scott, Kim, 1957- author.
    origin info:
      publisher: Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2019
      edition: First American edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019017048
  identifier: 9781618731692
  identifier: 1618731696
  identifier: 2019016455
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190408
    record change date: 20230913173220.3
    record identifier: in00004742811
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng