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Harper
April 2019
On Sale: April 2, 2019
464 pages
ISBN: 0062898108
EAN: 9780062898104
Kindle: B07KPF1MK7
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Coming of Age
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate
and a boy’s coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and
infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want to go Eli Bell’s life is complicated. His father is lost, his
mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The
most steadfast adult in Eli’s life is Slim—a notorious felon
and national record-holder for successful prison escapes—who
watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older
brother. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a seedy
suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this
twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is
just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a
good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism.
Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli’s
path—most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane’s legendary drug dealer. But the real trouble lies ahead. Eli is about to fall in
love, face off against truly bad guys, and fight to save his
mother from a certain doom—all before starting high school. A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most
unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is
the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the
man he will be. Powerful and kinetic, Trent Dalton’s debut
is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and
exhilarating novels you will experience.
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