![]() ![]() These are the years leading up to Australia’s third centenary, and the woman who finds her, Bella Donna of the Champions, is a refugee from climate change wars that devastated her country in the northern hemisphere.īella Donna takes Oblivia to live with her on an old warship in a polluted dry swamp and there she fills Oblivia’s head with story upon story of swans. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victim of a brutal assault by wayward local youths. A hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” ( O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down-where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. ![]()
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