Stone Sky Gold Mountain

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Stone Sky Gold Mountain
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Author Mirandi Riwoe
GenreHistorical fiction
Publisher University of Queensland Press
Publication date
31 March 2020
Publication placeAustralia
Pages264
ISBN 9780702262739

Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a 2020 novel by Mirandi Riwoe. The novel follows two Chinese siblings, Ying and Lai Yue, who move to Maytown during the Australian gold rushes. [1] The novel won the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Fiction Book Award at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. [2] [3] It was described by the judging panel of the Stella Prize as "a lyrical, character-driven piece of historical fiction that explores identity, friendship, belonging, and what it means to exist on a land that is not your own". [4]

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Reception

The novel received generally positive reviews. In a review in The Saturday Paper , Cher Tan praised Riwoe's exploration of racism and misogyny in colonial Australia and her rich use of language, while noting that the novel's ending felt somewhat rushed. [5] Mindy Gill likewise noted the novel's abrupt ending in a review for the Sydney Review of Books , but praised the novel for its compelling exploration of race and racial violence in early Australian history. [6] Writing in Meanjin , Jinghua Qian wrote that the novel was a reminder of Chinese settlers' complicity in colonisation, but that its Aboriginal characters were not fully developed and that it occasionally slipped into "self-orientalising" tropes. [7] Laura Elizabeth Woollett gave a positive review of the novel in Australian Book Review , writing that Riwoe "masterfully wields the interiority of marginalised characters to destabilise dominant colonial narratives". [8]

Awards

Awards for Stone Sky Gold Mountain
YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize —Won [2]
Queensland Literary Awards The University of Queensland Fiction Book AwardWon [3]
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceShortlisted [3]
The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardShortlisted [3]
2021 Stella Prize —Shortlisted [4]
Davitt Award Adult NovelShortlisted [9]
Australian Book Industry Awards Small Publishers' Adult Book of the YearShortlisted [10]
Miles Franklin Literary Award —Longlisted [11]
Voss Literary Prize —Longlisted [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Stone Sky Gold Mountain". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 "ARA Historical Novel Prize Past Winners". Historical Novel Society of Australia. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "History of the awards". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Stone Sky Gold Mountain – Mirandi Riwoe". Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Tan, Cher (18 April 2020). "Stone Sky Gold Mountain". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  6. ↑ Gill, Mindy (27 July 2020). "Long After You Have Left This World". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  7. ↑ Qian, Jinghua (Spring 2020). "Guilt Mountain". Meanjin. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  8. ↑ Woollett, Laura Elizabeth (May 2020). "Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Davitt Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "ABIA 2021 Shortlist". Australian Book Industry Awards. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "The Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist 2021". Readings. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  12. ↑ "Voss Literary Prize 2021 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
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