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1. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Seren Heyman-Griffiths

   A Short History of Longans by Mirandi Riwoe review – a moving family portrait devoured in one sitting (opens the original)

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   Riwoe’s commanding new book traces a Chinese Australian family across four generations – all connected by one old longan tree It’s the year 2049 and Daniel Connelly is 75 years old. Eccentric and lonely after decades of self-imposed isolation, his existence is “spartan”, a “relentless searching, a yearning for pieces that fit together to make a new whole”. He spends his days making sculptures from broken pottery; the shards of his life. During a warm winter’s day, Daniel steps ou

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