Description - Taboo by Kim Scott
'Taboo seizes and will not release.' Robert Macfarlane
One may as well begin, 'Once upon a time...' Except this is no fairytale.
Kim Scott's powerfully charged, award-winning novel thrusts a young woman centre-stage in a vicious drama that has been playing in her family for generations - an act of extraordinary violence, and an act of extraordinary reconciliation, separated by two hundred years.
WINNER VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2019
WINNER NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2018
WINNER QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 2018
FINALIST COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD 2018
FINALIST MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
PRAISE FOR TABOO
'Remarkable' The Australian
'An extraordinary novel' Robert Macfarlane
'A master storyteller at the top of his game' Guardian
'One of the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this continent today' Sydney Review of Books
'Stunning' Saturday Paper
'Undaunted and daring as ever' Sydney Morning Herald
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