{"product_id":"2026100009467-secondhand-a-kindness-cup","title":"A Kindness Cup","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nAstley'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203180634331,"sku":"2026100009467-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/425302e1-0379-482f-a594-f159f26d05c8.png?v=1788145019","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009467-secondhand-a-kindness-cup","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}