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Earth Cries Out
Paperback Edition: 1
One day we were in a dream world, where Julia was dead and the space where she once was became large and silent, and then we were in another country altogether where stories and voices made their way into our house any way they
could. They heaved under the floorboards, whispered in the windows. Creaked in the attic like a python grown too big on rats. And I collected them all to fill that silence Julia left.
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After the accidental death of five-year-old Julia, Ruth's father decides that atonement and healing are in order, and that taking on aid work in a mountain village of Irian Jaya is the way to find it. It is the late 1990s, a time of civil unrest and suppression in the Indonesian province now known as West Papua.
The family drops into what seems the middle of nowhere, where they experience a vibrant landscape, an ever-changing and disorientating world, and for Ruth new voices. While her parents find it a struggle to save themselves let alone anyone else, Ruth seeks redemption in bearing witness to and passing on the stories of those who have been silenced even as she is haunted by questions about what it means to witness and who gets to survive.
Bonnie Etherington was born in Nelson, New Zealand, but spent most of her childhood in West Papua and her experiences there inspired her first novel. Currently she lives in Chicago.
Featured in the 27 Febuary 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Featured in the Autumn 2017 Great Reads newsletter.
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Pages : 285
Publisher : Vintage New Zealand
Publication date : 2017-02-27
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Fiction