Breath: A Novel

"Breath" by Tim Winton, published by Penguin Publishing Group. Tim Winton's Breath, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, is a story about the wildness of youth and learning to live with its passing''His best to date. It is written with great tenderness and sympathy and rhythmic energy, and structured with immense skill.'' - Colm Toibin, The Guardian (UK)When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. ''Breath is about moving out of your depth, getting in over your head, having your soul damaged beyond repair... But against all this pointless sorrow, there remains the evanescent beauty of the world, and Winton matches that with limitlessly beautiful prose.'' - Carolyn See, The Washington Post''It's unlikely Winton has ever written as well as he writes in Breath... Its seeming simplicity is deceptive, for beneath its pared-back surfaces lies all the steel of a major novelist operating at full throttle in a territory he has spent 25 years making his own.'' - James Bradley, The AgeA relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Book details: 288 pages, published 2008. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.