Mirandi Riwoe’s A Short History of Longans

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Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds, The Fish Girl, and Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Mirandi joins us with her new novel A Short History of Longans

Across four generations A Short History of Longans tells the story of a family.

In the near future Daniel lives a solitary life; trapped by his past.

In the year 2000 Wendy tries to connect to her family even as her memory is gradually stripped away.

In post war America, Ruby fears she may never get back to Australia.

And in the mid nineteenth century, Maria and Ah Yang are drawn together to begin the whole saga.

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