{"product_id":"gather-up-your-world-in-one-long-breath","title":"Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fearless, tender memoir from the prize-winning writer of \u003ci\u003eCounting and Cracking.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShakthi lives with his family in the house his great-grandparents built in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before the civil war. Carried across the seas to Australia, on the strength of his grandmother’s will, this house breathes the joy and grief that has passed through generations. And it’s here Shakthi writes about the people he loves, all of whom come together to form a portrait of Shakthi himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGather Up Your World in One Long Breath\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of fallibility, forgiveness and grace. It’s a paean to fatherhood and family, and the love and conflicts that make us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Raw, unflinching, poetic and profound – an artist’s journey and a son’s’ \u003cb\u003eShankari  Chandran\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A rich exploration of the mystery of finding Australia ... I loved it’ \u003cb\u003eAravind Adiga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘An intimate, tender voyage into history, hunger and home’ \u003cb\u003eOmar Musa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A beautiful and powerful exploration of the intensity and immutability of being a part of a family’ \u003cb\u003eAlice Pung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003e‘A redemptive story [that] shows us the power of travelling towards each other’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTanya Selvaratnam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘[A] tender, brave and unusual portrait of one family, and literally one house, that moved across two lands’ \u003cb\u003eSonali Deraniyagala\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A luminous and unflinching memoir of exile, love and the weight of inheritance’ \u003cb\u003eSteve Toltz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAUTHOR BIO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eS. Shakthidharan is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He’s a writer, director and producer of theatre and film, and a composer of original music. His debut play, \u003ci\u003eCounting and Cracking\u003c\/i\u003e, was voted ‘the best Australian play of the 21st century’ in an \u003ci\u003eArtsHub\u003c\/i\u003e poll, was called ‘one of the great Australian plays’ by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Critic’s Pick. The script won the Victorian Prize for Literature in the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting in the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. His latest play, \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, premiered in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Powerhouse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44737034059955,"sku":"9780645530964","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/0847\/6595\/files\/250718_GUYWIOLB_Powerhouse-Shop_v12.jpg?v=1752803675","url":"https:\/\/store.powerhouse.com.au\/products\/gather-up-your-world-in-one-long-breath","provider":"Powerhouse Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}