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Loading... Stone Sky Gold Mountainby Mirandi Riwoe
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) ChrisGreenDog | Nov 12, 2023 |  However, I am well out-of-step with critical reception for this novel, and maybe if my expectations hadn't been so high, I would have been well content. Longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Award and a Stella Prize nominee, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a story of the Chinese at Palmer River during the Queensland Gold Rush. It has been widely reviewed, and nobody else seems disappointed... To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/07/11/stone-sky-gold-mountain-2020-by-mirandi-riwo... (  ) anzlitlovers | Jul 10, 2023 | shawjonathan | Jun 25, 2020 | ) HelenBaker | Apr 19, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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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 gets 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. No library descriptions found. |
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