The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

Profoundly moving & exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people & a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was & what endures, & a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling & identity."Take courage when you read this book. You'll need it. Winch asks big questions of this country. Is the answer within us?" — Bruce PascoeKnowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people & everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief & burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather & into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river."Winch’s urgent novel is a chance to listen. A moving & evocative story of Aboriginal Australia. Hope shines through this contemporary novel of a culture dispossessed & the importance of preserving language. Winch is a Wiradjuri author & here she writes about the Wiradjuri language which was once thought to be extinct but has now been preserved. The Yield is current, timely & an important must-read for all Australians." — Dean, Better Read Than Dead°°° Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 & based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was a critically acclaimed debut. She was named the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, & has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha . Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.