Maxine Beneba Clarke is a novelist, poet, and editor living in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to being a recipient of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship for Biography she is also the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the Debut Fiction Indie Award and the Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards. Foreign Soil is Maxine's first book.
"A new voice to fiction comes with a new vision that all readers
will find captivating and mind changing as she gives perspectives
of those that have been neglected."-- "Sheen Magazine"
"Clarke is a magical writer whose ability to create so many very
different people is absolutely uncanny." -- "Tonstant Weader
Reviews"
"Foreign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and
promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer."--Hannah
Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites
"Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and
this collection - written with exquisite sensitivity and yet
uncompromising - will stay with you with the force of elemental
truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an
essential voice in world literature for years to come."--Dave
Eggers bestselling author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING
GENIUS
"Stylistically bold, structurally innovative and brave in subject,
confronting war, child soldiers, domestic abuse, gender identity,
and political violence...Clarke writes with the lyricism of a
poet..."-- "BookBrowse"
"A tremendous new voice; a writer of immense talent and depth." --
"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW"
"Sterling. . . a powerful view of the beauty and complexities of
globalization. The tales take us from Britain's fiery Brixton
community in the 1960's to modern-day Sydney, Australia. Each story
paints a pastiche of the human condition with clarity, insight and
creativity abetted by a confident and necessary international
voice."-- "Essence Magazine"
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