Poor Fellow My Country
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Published in 1975, Xavier Herbert's monumental Australian novel Poor Fellow My Country stands as one of the longest works of fiction ever written in the English language, a sweeping and impassioned epic set in the Northern Territory during the years leading up to World War II. The narrative chronicles the lives of a richly diverse cast of characters — Aboriginal Australians, mixed-race individuals, and white settlers — weaving their fates together to construct a searing indictment of colonial Australia and the systematic destruction of Indigenous culture. Herbert argues with fierce moral conviction that Australia has betrayed both its land and its First Nations peoples, and the novel's tone oscillates between lyrical beauty and raw, unrelenting anger. At its heart is the figure of Jeremy Delacy, a disillusioned pastoralist who embodies the novel's central tragedy: the failure of white Australia to forge a just and meaningful relationship with the continent it occupies. A Booker Prize–shortlisted masterwork, Poor Fellow My Country remains one of the most ambitious and politically charged achievements in Australian literary history.
Author: Xavier Herbert
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Collins Australia
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Published in 1975, Xavier Herbert's monumental Australian novel Poor Fellow My Country stands as one of the longest works of fiction ever written in the English language, a sweeping and impassioned epic set in the Northern Territory during the years leading up to World War II. The narrative chronicles the lives of a richly diverse cast of characters — Aboriginal Australians, mixed-race individuals, and white settlers — weaving their fates together to construct a searing indictment of colonial Australia and the systematic destruction of Indigenous culture. Herbert argues with fierce moral conviction that Australia has betrayed both its land and its First Nations peoples, and the novel's tone oscillates between lyrical beauty and raw, unrelenting anger. At its heart is the figure of Jeremy Delacy, a disillusioned pastoralist who embodies the novel's central tragedy: the failure of white Australia to forge a just and meaningful relationship with the continent it occupies. A Booker Prize–shortlisted masterwork, Poor Fellow My Country remains one of the most ambitious and politically charged achievements in Australian literary history.