Hiam
Allen&Unwin 1998

Winner of the 1997 Vogel and the 1999 Dobbie Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the Kibble Award, the National Fiction Award, and The Courier Mail Book of the Year. Hiam is a journey through a psychic and geographic landscape, a journey through disintegration and loss. Hiam abandons Adelaide to unravel her life and memories on the road North after her family and identity have been destroyed. Through her nightmares and stories Hiam weaves an identity for herself out of past, present, stories, dreams and the Australian landscape with which she engages for the first time. On one level this is a story of a migrant’s experience in a strange land, a story drawing on the pressures, fragilities and strengths of exiled communities. It is also a story of universal human grief, individual courage and the will, not only to survive, but to live fully in the world. To buy a copy click here