Cover art for Taboo
Published
Picador, July 2019
ISBN
9781760784898
Format
Softcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
19.9cm × 12.9cm × 2cm

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'Taboo seizes and will not release.' Robert Macfarlane

One may as well begin, 'Once upon a time...' Except this is no fairytale. Kim Scott's powerfully charged, award-winning novel thrusts a young woman centre-stage in a vicious drama that has been playing in her family for generations - an act of extraordinary violence, and an act of extraordinary reconciliation, separated by two hundred years.

WINNER VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2019

WINNER NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2018

WINNER QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 2018

FINALIST COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD 2018

FINALIST MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

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