num_pages: 196
description: The destinies of two families, black and white, are fatally interwoven in this powerful, cinematic frontier novel. Racial brutality and the tragic account of the Myall Creek massacre underscore the story of Ginny and Wollumbuy, Kamilaroi people of the Warrumbungle Range. Mysterious killings follow the arrival of Karl and Gundrun Maresch, a German couple who establish a Lutheran mission near the young settlement of Coonabarabran.
language: English
title: Sweet Water-Stolen Land
titlecomplete: Sweet Water-Stolen Land
ratings_count: 22
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writing
publisher: Univ of Queensland Pr