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Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BENE	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780733632426 (pbk.)
ISBN	0733632424 (pbk.)
Name	Beneba-Clarke, Maxine author.
Title	Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Published	Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2014.
	Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia, 2014.
	©2014
Description	267 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary	The book is called Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.
Awards note	Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013.
Subjects	Australian fiction -- 21st century
	Short stories
	Race -- Fiction
	Refugees -- Fiction
Genre	Short stories
Genre	Australian fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian fiction . Australian fiction -- 21st century . Race -- Fiction . Refugees -- Fiction . Short stories . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Fiction . Authors: Beneba-Clarke, Maxine .