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Daughter of Bad Times
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Nikos Andronicos
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Rin Braden is almost ready to give up on life after the heartbreaking death of her lover Yamaan and the everyday dread of working for her mother's corrupt private prison company.
But through a miracle Yamaan has survived.
Yamaan turns up in an immigration detention facility in Australia, trading his labour for a supposedly safe place to live. This is no ordinary facility, it's Eaglehawk MTC, a manufactory built by her mother's company to exploit the flood of environmental refugees.
Now Rin must find a way to free Yamaan before the ghosts of her past and a string of bad choices catch up with them both. In its vision of the future, Daughter of Bad Times explores the truth about a growing inhumanity, as profit becomes the priority.
From the winner of The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award; Victorian Premier’s Literary Award; Tasmanian Literary Prize; Adelaide Festival Award for Literature; and NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
Critic Reviews
“It’s impossible not to consider, as you read Daughter of Bad Times, that everything in 2075 is already here now and we are doing nothing to stop it. An utterly compelling vision by one of our finest writers.” (Heather Rose, best-selling author of The Museum of Modern Love)
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- TassieReviewer
- 01-04-2021
Romeo and Juliet in corporate dystopia
I read this as a hard-hitting political thriller propelled by an unlikely romance. Although it's set in 2075, it feels much closer in time and is a clear examination of the current Australian political situation in regards to displaced people and corporate cronyism.
It's a good solid read. The action sequences in the last act are brilliant and exhilarating. The descriptions of a major natural disaster earlier on are harrowing and disturbing and have stayed with this reader. Court reports from government and corporate representatives break up the main narrative and these sections show off the dangerous slipperiness of political language.
I wasn't completely convinced by the relationship at the heart of the story though, and the passion that the main characters seemed to internally hold for each other wasn't always obvious when they were together. I didn't mind being made to question and doubt each character's intentions in the relationship, as that helped give the characters a real depth and humanity, but I wasn't sure that the relationship was powerful enough to actually drive events the way that they do - particularly in Rin's case.
But I would definitely recommend this book and I look forward to reading more from this author.
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