Alexis Wright est une auteure renommée issue du peuple Waanji, originaire du sud du golfe de Carpentarie. Son œuvre explore souvent la vie dans la région du Golfe, dépeignant l'existence précaire et les relations complexes au sein des communautés côtières isolées. L'écriture de Wright se penche sur le pouvoir du récit pour refléter et façonner l'identité culturelle et la mémoire collective. Sa prose est lyrique et profondément ancrée dans les formes narratives traditionnelles, offrant aux lecteurs une connexion profonde avec la terre et son peuple.
Exploring Doubt discusses the rich and varied ways in which answers to 'the big questions' - questions about faith, belief, authenticity and the existence of 'something else' - have always been most effectively articulated through the language not of absolute conviction, but of the marvelously improbable and ultimately unknowable.
In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.
Spanning disciplines from evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology to the history of books, libraries, and computer science, Alex Wright weaves an intriguing narrative about pre-computer age information explosions.
In 1934, Paul Otlet, a Belgian entrepreneur, designed a proto-Internet which he called a reseau mondial- literally, worldwide web. Today, Otlet and his vision have been all but forgotten, thanks to a series of historical misfortunes, but Alex Wright brings Otlet's extraordinary story back into the light in this fascinating look at the dream of universal knowledge.
IN the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, battle lines have been drawn in the disputes among the powerful Phantom family of the Westend Pricklebush, Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob, and the white officials of neighboring towns. Trapped between politics and principle, past and present, the indigenous tribes fight to protect their natural resources, sacred sites, and, above all, their people. Steeped in myth and magical realism, Wright's hypnotic storytelling exposes the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life. Carpentaria teems with extraordinary, larger-than-life characters who transcend their circumstances and challenge assumptions about the downtrodden other. The novel bursts with life (Daily Telegraph) as Alexis Wright re-creates the land and its people with mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Featuring a powerful narrative, this novel is recognized as a significant work in the First Nations Classics series, enhanced by an introduction from Mykaela Saunders. The author, notable for winning both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, weaves a compelling story that explores themes of identity and belonging within Indigenous culture. This edition highlights the book's enduring impact and relevance in contemporary literature.
A young man returns from France to his Ayrshire home in the summer of 1781. He finds employment with a wealthy merchant but he is drawn into intrigue and smuggling and is accused of a murder he didn't commit.
An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose "words explode from the page" (The Monthly)
