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Wanting / Richard Flanagan

by Richard Flanagan

Set in nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land and London, this novel follows the adoption of an Aboriginal girl by the colonial Governor and a novelist's defence of the Governor's reputation. It examines the conflict between Victorian discipline and human desire.

Accession 8082 ISBN 9781741666687 Publisher Vintage Books
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