The Yield by Tara June Winch《屈膝》
The Yield by Tara June Winch
Based in Australia and France, Tara June Winch (born 1983) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian writer. She is from the Wiradjuri nation in western
New South Wales and grew up in Wollongong region. Her first novel Swallow the Air was published in 2006, which won several Australian literary awards. Her third novel The Yield was published in 2019 , which won the 2020 Miles Franklin Award , 2020 Voss Literary Prize and 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. The Yield is being translated into Chinese and will be published soon. The website can be accessed here (opens in a new window).
The Yield is a stunning novel which blends three distinct narratives of granddaughter August Gondiwindi, grandfather Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi and 19th century missionary Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf to tell the story of the Wiradjuri tribe, its language, history and people. August Gondiwindi is returning from England to the Country for her grandfather Albert’s funeral and caught in a jag of compulsive recall. August finds that the lands of her family Massacre Plain are being taken over by a tin mining corporation. She is determined to make amends and endeavours to save their land. Meanwhile, she learns that her grandfather Albert had been compiling a dictionary of the
Wiradjuri language, which transported the history and life on the plains and rich culture of Wiradjuri people.
Deeply touching and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield tells the story of a people and a culture dispossessed and becomes the latest excellent book bringing a new understanding of Aboriginal people and land, their culture, heritage and identity to a wider audience.
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 352pp
Publication date: 2 July 2019
ISBN0063003465 (ISBN13: 9780063003460)
塔拉·琼·文奇小说《屈膝》简介
塔拉·琼·文奇（Tara June Winch，1983）是澳大利亚原住民小说家，她是新南威尔士州西部原住民威拉德朱里（Wiradjuri）的后代。文奇成长于新南威尔士州卧龙岗地区，现居住在法国和澳大利亚。她的首部小说《窒息》(Swallow the Air) 于2006年正式出版，获得了评论界的一致好评并荣获多项澳大利亚文学奖项。2019年文奇出版了第三部小说《屈膝》（The Yield），一举夺得澳大利亚最富盛名的文学奖：2020年迈尔斯·弗兰克林文学奖（2020 Miles Franklin Award ), 2020年沃斯文学奖（2020 Voss Literary Prize）和 2020年澳大利亚总理文学奖-小说类（2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction）。《屈膝》的中译本即将面世。作家个人网站 (opens in a new window)
《屈膝》讲述了孙女奥古斯特·冈迪温迪从旅居十年的英国回到家乡澳大利亚威拉德朱里参加祖父葬礼的故事。她发现自己的家乡即将被一家矿业公司收购。为了弥补损失，努力拯救家族的土地，奥古斯特深入研究了她家族的历史和语言。文奇通过三种不同的叙事声音来讲述威拉德朱里原住民的故事，分别从孙女奥古斯特·冈迪温迪，祖父阿尔伯特·冈迪温迪和19世纪传教士费迪南德·格林利夫牧师的视角进行叙述。祖父阿尔伯特是威拉德朱里语词典的编纂者，他希望把这门原住民语言传承给后代。小说末尾就附上了祖父阿尔伯特编纂的威拉德朱里语词典,读者通过词典了解祖父个人经历以及他们民族祖先的传统、习俗和信仰。
《屈膝》这部小说深刻感人，文笔细腻，讲述了原住民民族威拉德朱里和其文化被剥夺的故事，是对原住民语言、文化和身份的有力重申。读者通过阅读《屈膝》和文中的原住民语词典能更进一步了解澳大利亚原住民语言和文化并对原住民的身份有新的认识。
