Stone Sky Gold Mountain

Riwoe, Mirandi
Stone Sky Gold Mountain

Stone Sky Gold Mountain

Riwoe, Mirandi

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Awards

  • Longlist, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021
  • Longlist, Voss Literary Prize 2021
  • Shortlist, 2021 Stella Prize

Shortlisted for Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance
Shortlisted for Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award

Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders.

Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.

Author:   Riwoe, Mirandi
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
ISBN:  

9780702262739


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   31 March 2020
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Shortlisted for Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance
Shortlisted for Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award

Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders.

Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.

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Author:   Riwoe, Mirandi
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
ISBN:  

9780702262739


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   31 March 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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