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STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN
This engrossing, beautifully written historical novel about Chinese migration is full of unforgettable characters, and explores timeless questions of exile, belonging and identity.
Tragic family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in North Queensland. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings to seek work in nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on expeditions, taking him far away from his sister, while Ying remains in the township, where she works in a local store and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with a troubled past. Maytown is a place riven with racial and class tensions, and violence frequently erupts.
When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those considered outsiders, including those within the Chinese community. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life one hundred and fifty years ago, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and timeless story about those exiled from family and place, who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Mirandi Riwoe's novella The Fish Girl won Seizure's Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize and the QLA's UQ Fiction Award. Her debut novel She be Damned was followed by A Necessary Murder. She is Peril Magazine's prose editor. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Shibboleth and Other Stories. She has received an Asialink residency with the Shanghai Writers Association, an Australian Council for the Arts grant and fellowships from the Queensland Literary Awards and Griffith Review in order to work on this novel. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those considered outsiders, including those within the Chinese community. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life one hundred and fifty years ago, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and timeless story about those exiled from family and place, who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Mirandi Riwoe's novella The Fish Girl won Seizure's Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize and the QLA's UQ Fiction Award. Her debut novel She be Damned was followed by A Necessary Murder. She is Peril Magazine's prose editor. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Shibboleth and Other Stories. She has received an Asialink residency with the Shanghai Writers Association, an Australian Council for the Arts grant and fellowships from the Queensland Literary Awards and Griffith Review in order to work on this novel. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
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Published 2020-04-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS) |