Moira McKinnonRecensioni
Autore di Cicada
Recensioni
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Along with a vivid picture of the rugged and wonderful outback, Cicada also evokes the racism and injustice perpetrated on the Aboriginal people by English colonists. The latter half of the novel takes the reader to rough cattle towns, prisons, and a court of law where justice is arbitrarily meted out. Here Emily finds herself as much of an outcast as Wirritjil, no longer fitting her accustomed position and status. By the novel’s end her English perspective on place and time has shifted, as she comes to realize that there is “No yesterday or tomorrow. There was only this moment” (344). While I might have liked more development of the characters’ back-story--particularly of Emily’s forbidden relationship with a half-Aboriginal ranchman, which is told in flashbacks--by the end I found myself moved and amazed. This is a novel to remember.