The Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian writer and farmer Bruce Pascoe is best known as the author of the modern classic Dark Emu. He has also written extensively in the realm of fiction. Alongside the nonfiction work Black Duck: A Year at Umburra, which he wrote with his long-term partner, Lyn Harwood, the epic novel Imperial Harvest is Pascoe’s second book release this year.
Despite the horror and violence of the world Pascoe has imagined, there is also a striking humanity, humour and sensuality here. A chronicle of grief, survival and adaptability from Asia and Europe in the 13th century, there are deep resonances between Imperial Harvest’s exploration of war and displacement and the experiences of First Nations people in Australia.
