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No more boats / Felicity Castagna.
- Title
- No more boats / Felicity Castagna.
- Author
- Castagna, Felicity
- Publication
- [S.l.] : GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING, 2017.
- Artarmon, NSW Giramondo Publishing, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- 223 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- It is 2001, 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa off the shoreline of Australia, while the TV and radio scream out that the country is being flooded, inundated, overrun by migrants. Antonio Martone, once a migrant himself, has been forced to retire, his wife has moved in with the woman next door, his daughter runs off with strange men, his deadbeat son is hiding in the garden smoking marijuana. Amid his growing paranoia, the ghost of his dead friend shows up and commands him to paint 'No More Boats' in giant letters across his front yard. The Prime Minister of Australia keeps telling Antonio that 'we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come'. Antonio's not sure he wants to think about all the things that led him to get in a boat and come to Australia in the first place. A man and a nation unravel together.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Australian fiction
- Political fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Political fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1925336301
- 9781925336306
- OCLC
- 1058379729
- SCSB-11692275
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library