The Yield: Winner Of The 2020 Miles Franklin Award

The Yield by Tara June Winch is a Miles Franklin Award–winning literary fiction novel that blends family story, Indigenous language and sharp truthtelling into a reading experience that stays with you. This clothbound hardback in the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series is as beautiful on the shelf as it is on the page.

As Albert “Poppy” Gondiwindi nears the end of his life, he sets down words and memories, determined to keep his people’s language alive. When August Gondiwindi returns home for his funeral, she’s pulled back into a community and a landscape shaped by loss, love and unfinished business. Her attempt to make amends and protect Country draws her towards Poppy’s voice—and into the deeper currents of the river, where stories and secrets surface.

Perfect for readers of Australian literary fiction, First Nations stories, intergenerational family dramas and books about identity and Country.

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