Stone Sky Gold Mountain

Author(s): Mirandi Riwoe

Fiction

Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.

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 finds 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.

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Longlisted Miles Franklin 2021

Shortlisted Stella Awards 2021

Shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year 2021

Shortlisted for the QLD Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance 2021

 

Shortlisted for the QLD Premier’s Fiction Book 2021

General Fields

  • : 9780702262739
  • : University of Queensland Press
  • : University of Queensland Press
  • : 0.348
  • : November 2019
  • : 2.3 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 22.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mirandi Riwoe
  • : Paperback
  • : 2004
  • : 264