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THE RAIN HERON
THE RAIN HERON is the dizzying, dazzling new novel from the celebrated author of FLAMES.
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and tradingand forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission.
As their lives entwine, unravel and eruptas myth merges with realityboth Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.
Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.
Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. His writing has appeared in the Lifted Brow, Island, and Kill Your Darlings, and he was a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist in 2019. FLAMES, his highly acclaimed first novel, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and tradingand forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission.
As their lives entwine, unravel and eruptas myth merges with realityboth Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.
Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.
Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. His writing has appeared in the Lifted Brow, Island, and Kill Your Darlings, and he was a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist in 2019. FLAMES, his highly acclaimed first novel, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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Published 2020-06-01 by Text Publishing |