num_pages: 212
description: Birds of Passage is the powerful and haunting story of Seamus O'Young, an Australina-born Chinese, on a collision course with the past.He reconstructs his past through the eyes of Shan, an ancestor who came to Australia in the 1880s. And, just as Shan was driven from the goldfields by depravity, racism and sheer greed; so Seamus finds himself, a century later, fighting for his own life and sanity.
language: English
title: Birds of Passage
titlecomplete: Birds of Passage
genres: Fiction, Australia
ratings_count: 55
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Australian/Vogel's Literary Award
publisher: Australian Large Print