Benang
From the Heart
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Narrated by:
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Gregory Fryer
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By:
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Kim Scott
About this listen
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, Winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award.
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past.
©1999 Kim Scott (P)2024 W. F. Howes LtdCritic Reviews
‘Benang is brilliant. It is a mature, complex, sweeping historical novel which will remind people of Rushdie, Carey and Grenville at their best. This is an absolute page turner and in the end we are left with a sense of joy and gratitude that such stories are still possible—that the silence has been broken.' Sydney Morning Herald
‘Haunting and poignant, Benang pierces the heart even as it seeks to lance the savage bleeding of the wounds of white settlement in Australia.' Canberra Times
‘… Benang soars to the level of superb storytelling with an emotional punch to the guts, not unlike Toni Morrison's Beloved.' Weekend Australian
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- fred smith
- 06-12-2024
A beautifully crafted story
This is a wonderful novel that is set in the southern part of Western Australia it tells of how Harley our narrator is the first white man born in the family line. Using the historical records of A.O. Neville; The Chief Protector of Aborigines Scott tells of the sad and sometimes funny process it took to get to this stage. I read a physical copy of this book when it first came out and can understand why Benang won the Miles Franklin Award. Its a terrific novel.
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