Omar Musa is an author, visual artist and poet from Australia, Fierceland is his second novel. Join us for this launch event at Spiritland.

After many years abroad, Harun and Roz return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their palm-oil baron father, Yusuf – and to reckon with their inheritance. Yusuf might be a hero to many, but his children know that not only has he built the family’s immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest, but also that he was involved in the violent disappearance of a man who stood in his way.

Harun is a successful tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles while Roz is an artist struggling to stay afloat in Sydney, and both are determined to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest for redemption they grapple with the legacy of power and corruption and are haunted – by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself.

A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland is a language-bending story that weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.

Omar Musa is an author, visual artist, rapper and poet. He has written two novels (including Fierceland), three books of poetry, five hip-hop records, and two plays, Since Ali Died and The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio), with cellist Mariel Roberts Musa.

Fierceland won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.

He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcuts, including his most recent, The Hurt Business. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Best Australian Stories and Best of Australian Poems.

Join us at Spiritland King's Cross for a very special launch event for Fierceland, with a Q&A with the author, music, drinks & snacks. The novel will be available for purchase on the evening from Bricklane bookshop.

Doors: 5pm

Q&A: 6pm

Event ends: 10pm

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