by Trent Dalton · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789402702637
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«Jongen verslindt heelal» is Trent Dalton's coming-of-age novel, published by HarperCollins in paperback (496 pages, in Dutch).
Brisbane, 1985. Eli Bell, a boy trying to be good, grows up in a broken family: a missing father, a brother who doesn't speak, an addicted mother, and a drug-dealing stepfather. After his mother's arrest, he sets out to find his unknown father and confronts the underworld, including drug lord Tytus Broz, in a story of brotherhood, love, and friendship.
The original title is Boy Swallows Universe; the Dutch translation is by Elvira Veenings. The Dutch edition was published on April 16, 2019.
For reading groups and readers of literary coming-of-age fiction, with a story set in the 1980s in Brisbane.
Trent Dalton is an Australian novelist and journalist. He is best known for his 2018 semi-autobiographical novel Boy Swallows Universe.
