Butterfly Song
$32.45
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2005
Summary
Tarena Shaw has just finished her law degree but isn’t sure she wants to be a lawyer after all. What place does a black lawyer have in a white system? Does everyone in Sydney feel like a turtle without a shell?
Drawn to Thursday Island, the home of her grandparents, Tarena is persuaded by her family to take on her first case. Part of the evidence is a man with a guitar and a very special song …
Butterfly Song moves from the pearling days of the Torres Strait to the eb…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143002628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143002627 |
| Author: | Terri Janke |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Terri Janke
Terri Janke is a descendant of the Meriam people of the Torres Strait Islands and the Wuthathi people of mainland Australia. She was born in Cairns and now lives with her husband and two children in Sydney, where she runs her own legal firm specialising in Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. She has written widely about these issues, and her short stories have been published in Island and Southerly. Butterfly Song is her first novel.
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