{"product_id":"praiseworthy","title":"Praiseworthy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Stella Prize 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the ALS Gold Medal 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Voss Literary Prize 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Queensland Literary Award for Literary Fiction 2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance 2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLonglisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his people’s independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees. Outrage ferments at his desecration of traditional land, while Cause’s wife Dance seeks refuge with butterflies and dreams of moving their family to China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBad feelings reach fever pitch when citizens catch wind of the suicide of Aboriginal Sovereignty, Cause’s eldest son. All are distraught – all, that is, except eight-year-old Tommyhawk Steel, who, with his brother gone, gleefully pursues his dream of becoming white and powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned, \u003cem\u003ePraiseworthy\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvel of explosive sentences, a shock to allegory, an outraged cry against oppression, and a biting satire for the end of days.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexis Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59282353586521,"sku":"9781913505929","price":35.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1069\/9056\/7769\/files\/9781913505929.jpg?v=1788367880","url":"https:\/\/thetwotrickpony.ch\/products\/praiseworthy","provider":"The Two Trick Pony","version":"1.0","type":"link"}