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'Raki' is the Australian Aboriginal generic word for rope, the unifying metaphor of Wongar's novel, representing the conquered or bound state of oppressed people. From the confines of an outback Australian prison cell to war-torn Serbia, Raki invokes a powerful story of enchantment and struggle - the struggle to uphold traditions and nurture memory and joyous fortitude in the face of human devastation. Drawing on tragic similarites between the forced separation of Aboriginal children from their tribal families and the decimation of his Serbian native land, B. Wongar has written an epic surprisingly optimistic novel. And the unifying symbol is raki - the rope which fuses the historical facts, linking the Serbian and Aboriginal cultures to time immemorial. But raki is also the yoke of servitude, the rope which snaps with the shock of genocide, but which ultimately binds people together with love.
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- Title Raki
- Author B. Wongar
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 247
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Marion Boyars Publishers, London
- Date 1997
- ISBN 9780714530314 / 071453031X
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.7 in (22.35 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Allegories, Aboriginal Australians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97003945
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/1997, Page 1258
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