{"id":3564,"date":"2024-05-20T01:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2024-06-17T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T02:17:43","slug":"imperial-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2024\/05\/20\/3564\/imperial-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Imperial Harvest<\/em> is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. This fiction by bestselling Australian author Bruce Pascoe is set in 13th century Mongolia and addresses pertinent themes of dispossession, tracing imperialist tactics all the way back to the rise of the Khan empire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is one of the most profound and arresting novels I have ever read. The vast scope of Bruce Pascoe\u2019s imagination is breath-taking. <em>Imperial Harvest<\/em>, rendered in lucid and poetic prose, is a meditation on the barbaric absurdity of war, while being, as readers would expect from this extraordinary writer, a poetic hymn to the planet itself.\u2019<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Carmel Bird<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I loved this bountiful sensuous book &#8230; from a writer who confronts, again, the contradictions of history, religion and race.\u2019<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Hilary McPhee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/melbournebooks.com.au\/products\/imperial-harvest\">Imperial Harvest<\/a> by Bruce Pascoe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Melbourne Books<br \/>\nPrice: $32.99<br \/>\nISBN: 9781922779229<br \/>\nRelease: 4 June<br \/>\nDistributor: United Book Distributors<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournebooks.com.au\/\">Melbourne Books<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contentlower\">\n<p class=\"contenthead\"><em>The Title Showcase is sponsored by the publisher. To feature your title in this section, contact our\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:advertising@booksandpublishing.com.au?subject=%20Request%20information%20on%20Title%20Showcase%20features\">advertising manager<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial Harvest is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. This fiction by bestselling Australian author Bruce Pascoe is set in 13th century Mongolia and addresses pertinent themes of dispossession, tracing imperialist tactics all the way back to the rise of the Khan empire. \u2018This is one of the most profound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-title-showcase"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}