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The rain heron

✍ Scribed by Robbie Arnott

Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
153 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Melbourne;Victoria
ISBN
1925923312

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✦ Synopsis

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and tradingβ€”and forgetting.

But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission.

As their lives entwine, unravel and eruptβ€”as myths merge with realityβ€”both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.

Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.

The Rain Heron is the dizzying, dazzling new novel from the author of Flames.

Robbie Arnott was a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and won the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes. His widely acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), was shortlisted for a Victorian...

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