![]() ![]() When Dark Emu was published in 2014, Bruce became a household name and many readers encountered him for the first time. I’ve been a follower of his work since the early 1980s, when I read his fiction and subscribed to the literary magazine he edited and published with Lyn Harwood, Australian Short Stories. ![]() To some, Dark Emu seemed to come out of nowhere, but Pascoe’s latest book, Salt: Selected Stories and Essays, helps us to see how it grew from the author’s life experience and earlier storytelling. ![]() I’m grateful for a book that has so enlivened the engagement of Australians with their country’s history. They did not previously understand the sophistication of Aboriginal land management they had not previously felt the full injustice of European conquest and dispossession. Many readers speak of it with a sense of astonishment and revelation they often tell me that Pascoe’s book completely changed their understanding of Australian history. In recent years, as a historian of Australia, I’ve found that the book people most wanted to talk to me about is Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. ![]()
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