Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith N/E Keneally, Thomas

Australia, 1900. Jimmie Blacksmith is caught between two worlds — half Aboriginal, half white, raised by missionaries to believe that assimilation and hard work will earn him respect. It won't. When the racism and exploitation become unbearable, something inside him snaps. What follows is a brutal spree of violence that shocked a nation and forced it to confront the savagery of its own colonial attitudes. Thomas Keneally based this searing novel on real events, crafting a tragedy that's part historical reckoning, part psychological breakdown. It's unflinching, morally complex, and impossible to look away from. This is the book that made Keneally's international reputation before *Schindler's Ark* won him the Booker. For readers who want Australian literature that doesn't flinch, or anyone drawn to stories where injustice ignites catastrophe.