Roberta Sykes, aclamada autora y poeta australiana, se adentra en profundas exploraciones de la identidad y la justicia social en sus obras literarias. Su escritura refleja consistentemente un compromiso de por vida con el activismo por los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, los derechos humanos y los derechos de las mujeres. Sykes aprovecha su perspectiva única para crear narrativas complejas que resuenan con lectores que buscan historias con una fuerte brújula moral. Su distintivo estilo literario se caracteriza por una profunda resonancia emocional y una narrativa cautivadora.
Struggling to overcome the effects of her ordeals in "Snake cradle" the author gradually moves into the national spotlight as a writer and as a First Secretary of the Aboriginal Embassy set up in a tent on the lawns of Parliament House. She details the dangerous, demanding and sometimes lonely life of an itinerant activist
The first volume of Roberta Sykes' three-volume autobiography, chronicling her childhood and teenage years in Townsville in the 1940s and 1950s, to the birth of her son, the result of a gang rape when she was 17