![]() ![]() His follow-up, The Rain Heron(2020), won the AgeBook of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature. ![]() Robbie Arnott'sacclaimed debut, Flames(2018), won a Sydney Morning HeraldBest Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. The Rain Heronis equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping. Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading-and forgetting.īut when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission.Īs their lives entwine, unravel and erupt-as myths merge with reality-both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear. ![]() Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. ![]()
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