Swallow the Air
$24.00
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2021
Summary
The much-loved debut of 2020 Miles Franklin Award winner Tara June Winch available in paperback for the first time.
When May’s mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.
Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702263309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702263303 |
| Author: | Tara June Winch |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed and she was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary awards. A 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016. In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage was published in 2016. After the Carnage was longlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for fiction, shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection. She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary, Carriberrie, which screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and toured internationally. Her most recent novel, The Yield, has won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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