Every secret thing
By: Marie Munkara.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Lucia, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780702237195
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia, Northern -- Fiction; Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Missionaries -- Australia, Northern -- Fiction; Australia, Northern -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Winner of the 2008 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing. 'Told with biting wit and riotous humour' -judges' comments, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (2008). In the mission era in the remote north of Australia, it was a battle between saving souls and saving traditional culture. Winner of the 2010 NT Book of the Year Award.
Notes: "Winner of the 2008 David Unaipon Award"--Cover.