| #536670 in Books | 2002-11-20 | 2002-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.0 x5.19l,.30 | File type: PDF | 136 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The writing disappoints but the story fascinates.|By Jim Fleming|I saw the film some years ago and like it very much, so downloaded this version. I found the book difficult to follow, choppy and loaded with unfamiliar aboriginal language. The last complaint was mitigated by finding, at the end of the volume, a relatively complete glossary. A little upfront notice would have|About the Author|Doris Pilkington is also the author of Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter. Rabbit-Proof Fence, her second book, is now a major motion picture from Miramax Films, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Kenneth Branagh.
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden...
You easily download any file type for your device.Rabbit-Proof Fence | Doris Pilkington. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
