![]() The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving. 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. In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Recently viewed: Soil Law and Governance in India by. Desai (isbn:9783031323591) for 487 - Compare prices of 333550 products in Books from 499 Online Stores in Australia. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. Soil Law and Governance in India by Bharat H. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. ' Foreign Soil will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. ![]() WINNER- Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 ![]() WINNER- Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists of 2015 ![]() WINNER- The ABIA Award (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) 2015 WINNER- Indie Book Awards 2015 (Best Debut Fiction Book) ![]()
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