Swallow the Air (David Unaipon Award Winners Series) by Tara Winch (Epub)

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In 2006, Tara June Winch’s startling debut Swallow the Air was published to acclaim. Its poetic yet visceral style announced the arrival a fresh and exciting new talent. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates its important contribution to Australian literature. 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, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.

User’s Reviews

Tara June Winch is an Australian writer based in France. She has written essays, short fiction and memoirs for Vogue, Vice, McSweeneys, and various Australian publications and anthologies. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was published in 2006 and won numerous literary awards, including the David Unaipon Award and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. It has been on the education and HSC syllabus for Standard and Advanced English in Australia since 2009. In the same year she was awarded the International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award that saw her work under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. tarajunewinch-twmb.format.com/ –This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ An unpretentious story of a young Aboriginal girl whose family explodes through violence and substance abuse. Running away from it, she is nevertheless seeking family and a home — or the feeling of family. Lyrical descriptions of nature, her mother’s (Wiradjuri) stories from her own childhood, and her love of her brother contrast with painful and vivid memories of familial violence. Overall, these are beautifully written stories that convey a girl who is truly alone in the world, yet are both poignant and ultimately hopeful.

⭐ This journey for a young girl written in dreamy sometimes terrifying episodes takes her finally back home where all is not resolved by t there could be a way. She learned who she is.

⭐ Beautiful writing – heartfelt characters with depth and soul – descriptive setting to short stories – such a tender collection to read and embrace to reflection.

⭐ The book highlights the social issues for Aboriginal youth; a story of growing up and finding oneself within Australia culture.

⭐ The imagery iis biliant but the way in which Winch evenhandedly cuts too the quick is a remarkable feat .

⭐ I wish I didn’t have to read another book that makes me feel so awful about the terrible things people like me have done in this country. How long must people like me go on feeling bad yet still behaving badly year after year, decade after decade, century after century. A wonderful book, but sad, sad, sad. Thank you Tara Jane Winch.

⭐ The whole book is disjointed, lacks continuity, clarity. If the purpose was to emulate the current disconnected status of indigenous people, then it has achieved its purpose. A tale of frustrated disconnection.

⭐ This has to be one of the most beautifully written books that I have read in a very long time. Her use of words to tell May’s story quietly yet powerfully is pure art.

⭐ This book beautifully captures the search for identity. Its poetic prose flows through your soul.

⭐ Very impressed with this novel, its structure, its flowing, its beautiful prose, its evocation of a land we others cannot understand the way Tara’s people can. Thank you Tara!

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