Jesustown: A novel
Allen & Unwin, $32.99 pb, 364 pp
Fiction
The construction of history
Exploring the impact of colonialism
by Susan Midalia •
Paul Daley will be familiar to many readers as a respected journalist expressly committed to exposing the blind spots of white culture’s dominant myths about Indigenous history and Australia’s national identity. Daley is perhaps less well known as a novelist and playwright. These two interests in his work – historical research and imaginative writing – inform his powerful second novel, Jesustown, Daley’s seventh book, and one which he felt ‘compelled’ to write.
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