![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It's a love story, a story about justice and defying adversity. It's Australian but it's universal, it touches the heart, it makes you think without telling you how to. It's a very modern, commercial piece of black fiction. BUTTERFLY Song, Terri Janke's first novel, is a kind of parable about indigenous land rights, except in this case the property in question is a. What place does a black lawyer have in a white legal system? Does she really want to live in Sydney? She loves the buzz of city life, but is it her? Does everyone have this much trouble keeping up with life? Part family saga, part search for personal fulfilment, Butterfly Song reaches across cultures. Butterfly Song By Terri Janke Penguin, 22.95. Please see Wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. 2005, Butterfly song / Terri Janke Penguin Books Camberwell, Vic. ![]() But Tarena isn't sure she wants to be a lawyer after all. Butterfly song / Terri Janke Penguin Books Camberwell, Vic 2005. ![]() Her family, who hail from the Torres Strait, are claiming ownership of an exquisite and valuable pearl shell, for sale as part of the deceased estate of a white doctor. Tarena Palson has just finished her law degree at Sydney University and although she doesn't have her results yet, she's already been thrown into her first case. ![]() This novel opens in 1992, the year of the High Court's decision on Indigenous land rights in Australia. ![]()
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