The Rain Heron (The Age Book Of The Year 2021)

Author: Robbie Arnott

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781922268778
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  • : December 2019
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  • : 2006
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  • : English
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Description

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission.


As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt--as myths merge with reality--both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.


The Rain Heron is the dizzying, dazzling new novel from the author of Flames.

Awards

Winner of The Age Book of the Year 2021


Shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year 2021


Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award 2021


Age Book of the Year 2021

Reviews






‘In The Rain Heron, Robbie Arnott has turned his gaze to civilisation’s need to control and understand the natural world. This is a book full of heart—it’s so richly imagined, inventive and beautifully written, with a strong message, but is never didactic. It’s like nothing I’ve read and Arnott has quickly become one of my favourite authors.’




J. P. Pomare





‘A book that is not only a compelling, original read, but one that delivers hard truths that urgently need to be heard.’




Books+Publishing





The Rain Heron is unlike anything I have ever read. As luminescent as it is devastating, Arnott’s tightly wrought storytelling reveals the myriad harms we wreak both on our planet and on each other. It is mesmerising.’




Ruth Gilligan





‘A strange and curious book…the craft is extraordinary.‘




RN Bookshelf





‘Arnott weaves a narrative that feels both timely and timelessly engaging. A powerful meditation on human greed and frailty, The Rain Heron also leaves room for redemption. This bracing follow-up to Flames will reinforce Arnott’s reputation for unusual, risk-taking literary fiction.’




Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Australian Book Review





‘An engrossing narrative of mystery and escape that treats the reader to bravura runs of writing, especially around the elements of water and fire…You never quite know which direction the story will take off in as it creates a new kind of fairytale for our fire-prone landscape.’




Judges’ report on Flames, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2019



Author description

Robbie Arnott was a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and won the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes. His widely acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and Not the Booker Prize. He lives in Hobart.