Stone sky gold mountain / Mirandi Riwoe.
Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2020.Description: 254 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 0702262730
- 9780702262739
- 1800-1899
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Historical fiction
- Chinese fiction
- Families
- Gold mines and mining
- Identity (Psychology)
- Brothers and sisters
- Chinese Australians -- Fiction
- Crime -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Chinese -- Australia -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Chinese fiction -- Australia
- Families -- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia
- Australia -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Fiction
- Queensland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australian stories -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Australian fiction -- 21st century.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- A823.4 23
- PR8301.I96 S76 2020
- Winner 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Stella Prize Shortlist 2021.
- The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Winner 2020.
- Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Finalist 2020.
- The Courier-Mail People?s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Finalist 2020.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | RIW | Available | 063409 |
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Winner 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize.
Stella Prize Shortlist 2021.
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Winner 2020.
Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Finalist 2020.
The Courier-Mail People?s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Finalist 2020.
