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Wright, Alexis The Swan Book

The Swan Book (Giramondo, 2013) is the third novel by critically acclaimed Indigenous Australian author, Alexis Wright. Her previous two novels, Plains of Promise (UQP, 1997) and internationally famous Carpentaria (Giramondo, 2006) reveal that the author’s preference lies in incorporating multiple realities into a meandering story in order to engage with Australia’s troublesome socio-historical and environmental issues. The Swan Book follows the same blueprint, but unlike the first two novels, it is clearly projected into the future, beyond 2050, ominously showing what Australia might look like as it approaches its tricentennial celebration, with scores of global refugees who wander around the country ravaged by climate change, in search of the remaining unpolluted plot of land. In this respect, the novel functions as a commentary on the social and environmental injustice in Australia, and gels with strategic practices of climate fiction.

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