Fiction

Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba

Item: Beneath the Darkening Sky
Author: Alison Broinowski

by Alison Broinowski •

September 2012, no. 344

Hamish Hamilton, $29.95 pb, 239 pp, 9781926428420

Fiction

Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba

by Alison Broinowski •

September 2012, no. 344

Every migrant has a story. The past two decades have given us accounts of migration to Australia from so many Asian countries, and from so many viewpoints – sad, painful, funny, cynical, mystical – that little more seems left to tell. But now, out of Africa, comes a writer with a new and altogether more terrible tale.

Alison Broinowski

Alison Broinowski has lived, worked, and frequently travelled in Japan. She was Australia’s cultural attaché in Tokyo in the mid-1980s and has recently contributed a chapter, with Rachel Miller, on the history of the Australian Embassy, to a book on Australia–Japan relations edited at Deakin University. She is President of Australians for War Powers Reform.