{"product_id":"foreign-soil-by-maxine-beneba-clarke","title":"'Foreign Soil' by Maxine Beneba Clarke","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"589\"\u003eA sharp, politically alive short story collection from Maxine Beneba Clarke, moving across race, migration, displacement, class, language, family, belonging and the brutal economies of power people carry with them.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"589\"\u003eThe stories range widely — Australia, the Caribbean, Africa, the UK — but the collection holds together through voice: rhythmic, direct, unsentimental, and alert to the ways people are made foreign by place, history, whiteness, poverty, paperwork, and other bureaucracies of the soul. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"1225\"\u003eThis is a strong one for readers of contemporary Australian literature, diasporic fiction, migrant writing, and short stories that actually know how to land a punch rather than simply hover around an interesting premise. Clarke has that good combination of formal range and moral pressure: the stories feel intimate, but never small. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1449\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback. Hachette Australia, this edition published 2017. Originally first published in Australia and New Zealand in 2014. Light cover wear\/handling visible, but overall very decent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651793543251,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_23.png?v=1780923348","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/foreign-soil-by-maxine-beneba-clarke","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}