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Jasper Jones
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Jasper Jones is a 2009 novel by Fremantle-based writer Craig Silvey. It has won and been shortlisted for several major awards, and in 2012 was selected by the University of Canberra as its inaugural UC Book of the Year for 2013.
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[edit]Plot Summary
Protagonist Charlie Bucktin is a thirteen-year-old boy living in the regional mining town of Corrigan. He reflects that he is somewhat socially awkward, being uncoordinated in a town that values sporting ability. He is relatively intelligent - a fact which causes the other students to resent him. His best friend is Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese boy who, along with his parents, experiences racial discrimination throughout the novel. On a summer evening in 1965, Charlie is visited by fourteen-year-old Jasper Jones, an outcast in Corrigan due to his mixed White-Aboriginal heritage. Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush where Charlie bears witness to a terrible discovery.
[edit]Awards and Nominations
- Indie Book of the Year Award, 2009: Overall Winner and Fiction Winner.[1]
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, 2009: Winner for Fiction
- ABIA, 2010: Book of the Year, and Literary Fiction of the Year
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2010: Shortlisted
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for fiction, 2010: Shortlisted.[citation needed]
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2010: Shortlisted
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2011: Shortlisted.
The novel is published in the UK by Windmill Books.[2]
The blurb for the novel was used in a section of the 2010 English NSW School Certificate Paper.
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