Rarely does an author have such control of her words and her story: Wright's prose soars between the mythical and the colloquial. Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with. When the mythical Elias Smith, who appears in Desperance one day after “walking out of the sea,” is found murdered, a series of tragedies follows, awakening latent feuds and underlining the injustice of colonialism. The drama unfolds with all the poetry and eclecticism of a Bob Dylan song: a drunken white mayor dismisses a murder case, a lying deaf policeman named Truthful has his way with Aboriginal women, and a brave young activist sabotages the town's mining industry. In 2008, in collaboration with Gaetano Luigi Staffilano, Sirotti translated Alexis Wrights novel Carpentaria into Italian, less than two. There's Normal Phantom's family, Mozzie Fishman's gang and the white settlers who control the region, but can't quite figure out how to get the native Pricklebush people to assimilate to the white man's ways. Winner of the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award.Simultaneous release in the UK.Carpentaria is Alexis Wrights second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country.
In the town of Desperance, in northern Queensland, Australia, the question of land ownership is complicated, and every family stakes a claim. Carpentaria is essentially a novel about the clash of cultures, told from the perspective of the Aboriginal people of Australia. This 2007 Miles Franklin award–winning novel is the latest masterpiece from Wright, an indigenous Australian author and land rights activist. Alexis Wright ‘s Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 and I read it back around then but it’s a book that keeps coming back to me so I thought it was time I shared why.
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