Juice (Hardback)
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Hardback 528 Pages
Published: 17/10/2024
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Perfect reading for fans of The Road, Winton's blistering dystopian novel has profound things to say about humanity and survival and centres on a father-son duo who find refuge at an abandoned mine site.   

An edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.

'Will stab your conscience and break your heart’ Emma Donoghue
'A blistering cli-fi epic' The Guardian

Survival is only the beginning.

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

Problem is, they’re not alone . . .

So begins a searing journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035050598
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 772 g
Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 45 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Juice is a masterful story for the ages . . . There is anger and revenge to reckon with but Winton carries the reader all the way along. Juice is a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep - The Guardian

A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart - Emma Donoghue

Winton delivers it all in clean and unaffected prose. The twists are plausible and devastating, including several ingeniously subverted sci-fi tropes. The love story and mother-son dynamic have emotional and psychological depth. At first, I’d anticipated something like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, but Winton’s novel is stoic rather than nihilistic – a furious hymn to resilience, unsentimental and hard-won - Luke Kennard, Daily Telegraph

Like some old-time saga, an oral epic told forward into history - Cynan Jones

Winton’s new novel is no dream. It lies before us, a must-read masterpiece from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers - The Saturday Paper

Full of surprises and stunning originality . . . Winton poses a tantalising and urgent question - ABC

A narrative force that feels almost cyclonic - The Australian

This is a thrilling ride across an all-too imaginable landscape and a terrible cautionary vision. Magnificent - Mail on Sunday

Utterly absorbing . . . It's a thrilling story of survival and adventure, and a dark glimpse into our world's possible future - Irish Times

Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal. . . Despite its raw grief and pain, Juice is not a nihilistic book. Instead, it insists on the necessity of hope even in the face of insurmountable odds, and on the notion that our survival depends on our capacity to care for one another - Spectator

For fans of The Road, this is a chunky novel to immerse yourself in — an epic story of the struggle to survive - Evening Standard

Juice, Winton has said, means “human resilience and moral courage”, and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece - Sydney Morning Herald

Moving and beautiful . . . In the wrecked world Winton imagines, perhaps it is finally only machines who can live with what we still call honour - Financial Times

A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of "climate fiction" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it - New Scientist

A sweeping epic, that’s gripping and extraordinarily well written . . . this is a labour of love for Winton that’s well and truly paid off - Daily Mirror

Winton can switch expertly from a thriller-like account of one of the Service’s assassinations to an account of how our man unexpectedly found love - The Times

Forget the speculative fictions of melancholic environmental warning: the novel of bloody eco reckoning is here . . . Juice is in part a rare fictional study of revolutionary violence - its mentalities, possibilities and limitations - Tom Seymour Evans, TLS

I absolutely loved it - Mel Giedroyc, Front Row, BBC Radio 4

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“Hits you right in the heart”

Savagely beautiful and tragic- a heartbreaking dystopian future that doesn’t feel all that far away.

Hardback edition
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“Gripping post-apocalyptic cli-fi literary thriller”

This was great: think Cormac McCarthy's The Road with a dash of Mad Max. Brilliantly written and thought-provoking. I would highly recommend

Hardback edition
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