The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith: Thomas Keneally

Jimmie is a young half-blood Aborigine who is made conscious of his white heritage by a missionary. He leaves his tribe to find acceptance in the white man's world. He fails, through no fault of his own, and explodes in a fateful 'declaration of war' - the white man's way, as he has learnt, of acquiring license for revenge and violence. The story is set at the turn of the century, but the chant doesn't end there....