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Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780733632426 (pbk.) :
ISBN	0733632424 (pbk.) :
Personal Name	Clarke, Maxine Beneba
Title	Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Publication Details	Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2014.
Physical Description	267 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary Note	The book is called Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.
Subject - Topical Term	Short stories
	Refugees -- Fiction
	Race -- Fiction
	"The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2014)