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Fiction

The construction of history

Exploring the impact of colonialism
by Susan Midalia
September 2022, no. 446

Jesustown: A novel by Paul Daley

Allen & Unwin, $32.99 pb, 364 pp

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Paul Daley will be familiar to many readers as a respected journalist expressly committed to exposing the blind spots of white culture’s dominant myths about Indigenous history and Australia’s national identity. Daley is perhaps less well known as a novelist and playwright. These two interests in his work – historical research and imaginative writing – inform his powerful second novel, Jesustown, Daley’s seventh book, and one which he felt ‘compelled’ to write.

 


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Jesustown: A novel by Paul Daley

Allen & Unwin, $32.99 pb, 364 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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