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The crying place /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [S.l.] : ALLEN & UNWIN, 2017.Description: 474 pages 23 cmISBN:
  • 1760293717
  • 9781760293710
Subject(s): Summary: When Saul learns that his oldest friend Jed has died after returning from working in a remote Aboriginal community, he goes in search of answers. His only lead is Jed's ex- girlfriend, Nara, a Pitjantjatjara woman. Saul eventually finds Nara in Ininiyingi, a remote community full of extraordinary characters - Nara's son, Roopie; Kata, her father and a healer, and Thaddeus, a white man, half- hermit half-prophet. Saul and Nara struggle to find a way to grieve Jed's death and in the process Saul discovers a secret that will challenge everything he's come to believe about Jed's life. He also discovers a new possibility; of transformative engagement with both the desert and its Indigenous inhabitants that leads to a greater understanding of belonging and place...
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When Saul learns that his oldest friend Jed has died after
returning from working in a remote Aboriginal community,
he goes in search of answers. His only lead is Jed's ex-
girlfriend, Nara, a Pitjantjatjara woman. Saul eventually
finds Nara in Ininiyingi, a remote community full of
extraordinary characters - Nara's son, Roopie; Kata, her
father and a healer, and Thaddeus, a white man, half-
hermit half-prophet. Saul and Nara struggle to find a way
to grieve Jed's death and in the process Saul discovers a
secret that will challenge everything he's come to believe
about Jed's life. He also discovers a new possibility; of
transformative engagement with both the desert and its
Indigenous inhabitants that leads to a greater
understanding of belonging and place...

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