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Sky So Heavy, The

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Sky So Heavy, The

SKU: 9780702249761 Category: Product ID: 28634

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Title: Sky So Heavy, The
Author: ZORN CLAIRE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/07/2013
Imprint: UNI OF QUEENSLAND PRESS
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active



For Fin, its just like any other day racing for the school bus, bluffing his way through class and trying to remain cool in front of the most sophisticated girl in his universe, Lucy.
Only its not like any other day because, on the other side of the world, nuclear missiles are being detonated with unimaginable consequences.
When Fin wakes up the next morning, its dark, bitterly cold and snow is falling. Theres no internet, no phone, no TV, no power and no parents. Nothing Fins learnt in high school could have prepared him for this. With his parents missing and dwindling food and water supplies, Fin and his younger brother Max must find a way to survive on their own.
When things are at their most desperate, where can you go for help? As the weeks roll into months, Fin knows that the only way for him and his brother to survive is to team up with classmates Noll and Lucy and head to the city. Leaving all that is familiar, they begin the terrifying journey through a landscape that is now unrecognisable. As they approach the outer suburbs of Sydney, they are shocked to find barricades blocking the road, separating those who will be provided with food and resources from those who will not. If the four are to survive this nuclear winter, they must somehow cross the border and become refugees in their own country.

For Claire, the inspiration for The Sky So Heavy came from the debate over Australias treatment of asylum seekers and the looming environmental-refugee crisis. As such, she highlights the issues of prejudice, entitlement and the ethics of a personal struggle to survive. Claire also explores the idea of teenagers inheriting the legacy left by generations before them; generations who thought the world and humanity itself was invincible.
Gripping, moving and unputdownable, The Sky So Heavy will forever change the way you view the world and remind you about what matters most.
A mesmerising story inspired by the continued debate over Australias treatment of asylum seekers and how a line through a map can determine your fate. Set in the Blue Mountains and Sydney it explores a hypothesis of what could happen should the earth experience a nuclear winter.

ISBN: 9780702249761