The Nargun and the stars.

184 pages

English language

Published 1974 by Atheneum.

ISBN:
978-0-689-30432-3
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OCLC Number:
894136

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4 stars (1 review)

An ancient stone creature threatens the lives of a family on a lonely sheep farm in Australia.

5 editions

Australian mythology meets Western colonialism

4 stars

This is a children's book, and should be judged by those standards.

I very much appreciated how this captured the interface between Australian mythology and western culture as a farming family deal fairly sensitively with something outside their ken, although there seemed to be a large gap where the First Nation people should be (perhaps excusable given the 1974 publication date, but perhaps not).

I'm a little surprised it didn't make it in as an Australian classic.

Also taking a month to read 140 pages of easy text is not a good look. Do better, Brett.

Subjects

  • Fantasy.
  • Australia -- Fiction.