The novel then alternates between August's story, Poppy Gondiwindi's deeply personal dictionary entries, and a mysterious letter from 1915, written by the German reverend who first established an Aboriginal mission in Massacre Plains. Meanwhile her widowed grandmother is being forced to pack up their home to make way for a huge mine. She learns that he had been compiling a dictionary of the Wiradjuri language, but it's nowhere to be found.
We follow August Gondiwindi, a young woman returning to her home town of Massacre Plains after the death of her grandfather. It combines history, heritage and the Wiradjuri language with a moving narrative and unfussy, yet often lyrical, prose.
The Yield is that rare thing: a 5-star stunner from the very first lines. Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company.
She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. He finds the words on the wind.Īugust Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper.
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