In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is highly imaginative and still achingly real. Over three parts, van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In ‘Heat’, we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In ‘Water’, a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In ‘Light’, familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging.
Heat and Light presents an intriguing collection that heralded the arrival of a major new talent in Australian writing.
Part of the Black Australian Writing series.
Joint Winner, 2016 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards – Indigenous Writer’s Prize
Shortlisted, 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – Prize for Indigenous Writing
Commended, 2016 Australian Centre Literary Awards – The Kate Challis RAKA Award
Winner, 2015 Kibble Literary Awards – Nita May Dobbie Award
Joint Winner, 2015 The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
Shorlisted, 2015 The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Shortlisted, 2015 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards – Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Shortlisted, 2015 The Stella Prize
Winner, 2013 Queensland Literary Awards – Unpublished Indigenous Writer: David Unaipon Award
