The Swan Book
First edition cover
AuthorAlexis Wright
Cover artistDarren Gilbert
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherGiramondo Publishing
Publication date
2013
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages339 pp
ISBN978-1-922146-83-0
OCLC849317121
Preceded byCarpentaria 

The Swan Book is the third novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with critical acclaim when it was published, and was short-listed for Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award.[1][2]

Plot Introduction

The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows a girl who is pulled from a tree as a child after having been lost and gang-raped, and how she grows up raised by a European immigrant and seemingly guided by swans. After the death of her guardian, she is betrothed to a boy who grows up to become the first Indigenous President of Australia (Prime Minister has been abandoned in this future), and later marries him, despite retaining a childlike mind even as an adult.

Awards and nominations

Reviews

  • Gleeson-White, Jane. "Going viral" 2013-08-23. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  • Tierney, James. "The Swan Book" 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  • Webb, Jen. "Living wound: The Swan Book" 2013-09. Retrieved 2015-07-03.

Footnotes

  1. Webb, Jen. "Living wound: The Swan Book". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  2. Gleeson-White, Jane. "Going viral". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  3. "Lucashenko wins 2014 Vic Prem's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing". Books+Publishing. 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
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