Foreign Soil

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Pub Date Apr 29 2014 | Archive Date May 29 2014

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This title has been listed for readers in Australia. If you are in the UK or other territories please search for the UK edition, if listed. Please note that not all Hachette Australia titles are listed in the public NetGalley catalogue.

In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest.

Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013.

In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train-lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories.

The book is called FOREIGN SOIL. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the war-path through the rebel squats of 1960s' Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving...

This title has been listed for readers in Australia. If you are in the UK or other territories please search for the UK edition, if listed. Please note that not all Hachette Australia titles are...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780733632426
PRICE A$24.99 (AUD)

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