Research Catalog

Title

The choke / Sofie Laguna.

Author

Laguna, Sofie, 1968-

Publication

• Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

371 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers. Abandoned by her mother as a toddler and only occasionally visited by her volatile father who keeps dangerous secrets, Justine is raised solely by her Pop, an old man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Justine finds sanctuary in Pop's chooks and The Choke, where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow they can almost touch - a place of staggering natural beauty that is both a source of peace and danger. Although Justine doesn't know it, her father is a menacing criminal and the world she is exposed to is one of great peril to her. She has to make sense of it on her own - and when she eventually does, she knows what she has to do.

Subject

• Grandparent and child > Fiction
• Absentee fathers > Fiction
• Fathers and daughters > Fiction
• Children of criminals > Fiction
• Dysfunctional families > Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Grandparent and child - Fiction
• Dysfunctional families - Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Fathers and daughters - Fiction
• Children of criminals - Fiction
• Absentee fathers - Fiction
• Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) - Fiction
• Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
• Absentee fathers
• Children of criminals
• Dysfunctional families
• Fathers and daughters
• Grandparent and child
• Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.) > Fiction
• Australia > Murray River Valley

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction.
• Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• The author is the winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for the novel The Eye of the Sheep.

ISBN

• 9781760297244
• 1760297240

OCLC

990803667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library