They taught him the old ways: ancient farming practices, dances, stories, language. With them he did things humans could not do. He learnt to like the Bible, but he was also a visionary, in league with the ancestors. ‘Can you hear it now?’Albert asks, ‘Say it – Ngu-ram-bang!’Īlbert Gondiwini was raised in an Aboriginal Boys Home, cut off from his people and his culture. In Wiradjuri, a language once thought extinct, that word is Ngurambang. The Yield, Tara June Winch’s inspired second novel, begins and ends with an injunction: ‘Every person around should learn the word for country in the old language’ Albert Gondiwindi says.
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