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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlready a best-seller in Australia, Winch’s second novel is a clear-eyed look at the experiences of native people and the ways in which history is inherited through generations. --
BooklistA beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present. -- Kate Morton, internationally bestselling author of
The Clockmaker’s Daughter“[A] wily, appealing novel….A testament to the saving grace of language itself, and to the corrosive consequences when it falls out of use and disappears.” --
Wall Street JournalUnmissable. -- The Guardian
Winch makes a strong statement, beautifully rendered. --
Library Journal (starred review)
A deep and affecting novel, [and] one of the summer's literary must-reads. -- Bustle
A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia. -- Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of
The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthThe Peoples, languages and wildlife of Australia have been purposely decimated for a great many years. The history of this vast land is a tragic one and this young Indigenous author has taken it on in a graceful act of retrieval and witness. The dictionary and use of Wiradjuri words is transporting. Birrabuwawanha—to return, to come back. The Yield is a fine novel, and one not without hope. -- Joy Williams, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist
The Quick and the DeadMesmerising and important. -- Melissa Lucashenko, 2019 Miles Franklin award-winning author of
Too Much LipWinch offers a stark account of how Aboriginal peoples are ignored, abused and their cultural beliefs stomped on, [but] The Yield's final message is one of hope. -- Buzzfeed
Take courage when you read this book. You’ll need it. Winch asks big questions of this country. Is the answer within us? -- Bruce Pascoe, author of
Dark EmuThe humorous undercurrent to some of Winch’s short stories has no place here, and this is a more serious work than her previous books – but while she may have developed a more sophisticated style, her work is no less vivid, and this is an astonishingly elegant and powerful second novel. --
The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Yield sings up language, history, home, blood - all the important stuff. -- Paul Kelly, author of
How to Make GravyA work of immense scope and sensitivity. - -- Jessie Cole, author of
Deeper Water Reap the wisdom this book yields. --
The Saturday PaperThe Yield is the work of a major talent. It hypnotises with its lyricism, with the juxtaposition of horror and hope, and the candid look at family, country and history. It’s a work to be savoured, to be enjoyed in the sun on a winter’s day, and then to be shared—as widely as possible! -- Madelaine Dickie,
National Indigenous TimesThe Yield...is a poignant story of personal and cultural reclamation and survival. --
The Australian
