AWW21 Shifting Perspectives - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Mirandi Riwoe

In Mirandi Riwoe’s award-winning Stone Sky Gold Mountain, we
experience Australia’s Gold Rush through the eyes of Chinese
immigrants Ying and Lai Yue as family circumstances force the two
siblings to seek their fortune far from home. Nguyễn Phan Quế
Mai’s The Mountains Sing recounts Vietnam’s dark history of
colonialism and war from the perspective of its people rather
than its invaders. These illuminating and engaging novels provide
new perspectives on familiar stories in ways as refreshing as
they are important.


Chaired by Yves Rees