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Epic novel · Demanding

Praiseworthy

Alexis Wright · 2023 · Australia / Waanyi

A huge northern Australian epic involving ecological catastrophe, ancestral presence, a haze cloud, and a visionary climate scheme.

Notes and Misconceptions

Do not file it under ordinary climate fiction.

Its scale, satire, Aboriginal cosmology, and refusal of tidy realism make it a different reading experience.

Best Path

Indigenous literature, climate, epic satire

Reading Paths

  • Violence, Memory, Archive, and Place

    Novels and stories where politics enters through bodies, cities, records, weather, and speech.

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australiaindigenous-litclimateepicsatirecolonialismdemanding