{"product_id":"anis-portrait-my-string-bag-back-home-9780645932287","title":"Ani's Portrait: My String Bag Back Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eFNWF2024 Award Winner. The Judges said: \"To type your 65,000 word manuscript on the only available device: your smart phone. To type a story with a complex and intricate structure, telling the intimate and cultural details of daily life in a village. That questions the invasion of colonisation, and defines the effect on the human landscape of communal cultural remembrance across generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a deep intellectual dive into village life in Papua New Guinea. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unspoken atrocities hovering. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere indigenous people like the Bebeli of New Brittain are marginalised and constantly pushed towards erasure of identity, even today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold by women, who speak truth to each other. Old and deep all knowing truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd to ultimately proclaim: \"I am my own woman. That is who I am. I am tired of the label black, brown, coloured glaze, niggard woman. I am only human walking on this earth one time in my life time. That, that is who I am. I don't know why I need to explain that over and over again. Trying to assert myself in this God forsaken land like some bad black odour in this world. This continuous justification is not my vocation nor my calling but I am forever put there on the spot by my appearance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be remembered as a Masterpiece.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKondi, Julie Mota:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Julie Mota [Kondi], a professional visual artist based in Kimbe, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. She studied Social Sciences at the University of Papua New Guinea. This is her first novel.","brand":"First Nations Writers Festival International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764109869330,"sku":"9780645932287","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bada5762-a541-441b-b7ef-50b976ce2a1b.jpg?v=1764756093","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anis-portrait-my-string-bag-back-home-9780645932287","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}