
Breath
Edición de la obra Breath
| Autor | Michael Symmons Roberts |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Penguin Random House |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 208 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781407093451 |
| Número de Cutter | R646b |
“Breath” is set in a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war between north and south. The war may be over but people’s memories are long and hatreds are slow to fade. A teenage boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father, Geoff Andrews, manager of the main hospital, is asked if he will allow one of Jamie’s lungs to be removed and flown north for a transplant. He agrees, and the mercy mission begins: six hours to get the lung out of one body and into another.As the night unfolds, and the plane travels through storms across the war-ravaged country and over the border, we see the drama from three…-author