Description
In the early decades of the 19th century around what is now Albany, Western Australia—on a “friendly frontier” where cultures meet and misunderstand—Bobby, a young Noongar man, is drawn into the lives of the first European settlers. As relationships form through everyday encounters, a growing pressure to belong forces Bobby to confront what loyalty means when the world around him is changing. Told in playful, musical prose, the novel traces the shifting balance between old ways and new, exploring identity, belonging, and the moral cost of choosing sides. With its vivid sense of place and emotionally resonant storytelling, this award-winning work by Kim Scott illuminates early contact not as a single event, but as a lived, complicated transformation for everyone involved.
Available Editions
paperback
Picador / Pan McMillan
Published May 21, 2012
ISBN: 9781742611501
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott.