Heat and Light: First Nations Classics - Softcover

Van Neerven, Ellen; Whittaker, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702265993 ISBN 13: 9780702265990

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 2023

Synopsis

In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. 

 

Over three parts, van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In 'Heat', we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In 'Water', a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In 'Light', familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging. 

 

Heat and Light is an intriguing collection that heralded the arrival of a major new talent in Australian writing.

About this title

About the Author

Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. Ellen's first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They are the author of two poetry collections: Comfort Food, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize; and Throat, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Ellen's first non-fiction book is Personal Score.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702265993
• ISBN 13: 9780702265990
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 260