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AF AKEC
Adult Fiction
Bankstown
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12 Oct 2024
AF AKEC
Adult Fiction
Campsie
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26 Sep 2024
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9781760802158 (paperback)
Name
Akec, Kgshak
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Hopeless kingdom / Kgshak Akec.
Published
Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2022.
©2022
Description
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
Akita's family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in her life, her parents decide to relocate to Geelong to be closer to their Sudanese relatives. The move is the beginning of a downward spiral that threatens to unravel the fabric of their family and any hope for finding peace and belonging. Told through the interchanging perspectives of Akita and her mother, Taresai, this coming of age story shines a light on the generational curses of trauma, and gives voice to the silent heartache of searching for acceptance in an adopted society which isn't able to look past the surface of skin colour. Individually, the female narrators experience racism, rejection and despair, but together their narratives reveal a resilience of spirit and determination to transcend expectations of what a daughter, a sister, and a mother can be.
Awards note
2021 Dorothy Hewett Award (for an unpublished manuscript) - Winner
Subjects
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Racism -- Fiction
Sudanese -- Victoria -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Families -- Victoria -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Geelong (Vic.) -- Fiction
Genre
Domestic fiction
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Australian fiction
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Domestic fiction
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Families -- Victoria -- Fiction
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Geelong (Vic.) -- Fiction
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
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Racism -- Fiction
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Sudanese -- Victoria -- Fiction
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See Also:
Australian literature
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Children's stories, Australian
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Science fiction, Australian
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Short stories, Australian
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