A Kindness Cup
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched Queensland outback of the 1890s, a town reunion becomes a reckoning when a group of settlers are forced to confront the brutal massacre of Aboriginal people they witnessed — and enabled — twenty years prior. A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley is a searing indictment of colonial silence, moral cowardice, and the violence that underpins the myth of Australian pioneering life. Astley chronicles the slow unravelling of a community's carefully maintained facade, as one man's stubborn pursuit of justice collides with the collective will to forget. Astley's prose is razor-sharp and darkly ironic, wielding sardonic wit as a scalpel to dissect the complicity and self-deception embedded in small-town Australian identity. A landmark work of Australian literature, the novel stands as one of the earliest and most unflinching fictional reckonings with the frontier massacres that defined — and scarred — the nation's history. For readers who believe the past is safely buried, Astley presents a powerful and unsettling argument to the contrary.
Author: Thea Astley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Nelson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched Queensland outback of the 1890s, a town reunion becomes a reckoning when a group of settlers are forced to confront the brutal massacre of Aboriginal people they witnessed — and enabled — twenty years prior. A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley is a searing indictment of colonial silence, moral cowardice, and the violence that underpins the myth of Australian pioneering life. Astley chronicles the slow unravelling of a community's carefully maintained facade, as one man's stubborn pursuit of justice collides with the collective will to forget. Astley's prose is razor-sharp and darkly ironic, wielding sardonic wit as a scalpel to dissect the complicity and self-deception embedded in small-town Australian identity. A landmark work of Australian literature, the novel stands as one of the earliest and most unflinching fictional reckonings with the frontier massacres that defined — and scarred — the nation's history. For readers who believe the past is safely buried, Astley presents a powerful and unsettling argument to the contrary.