Richard Flanagan

En 1941, Dorrigo Evans, jeune officier médecin, vient à peine de tomber amoureux lorsque la guerre s’embrase et le précipite, avec son bataillon, en Orient puis dans l’enfer d’un camp de travail japo

Six weeks to write for your life... In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks. Kehlmann accepts but begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him-his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl-and who is Kif Kehlmann? By turns compelling, comic and chilling, First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Franklin has disappeared with his crew on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage.

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Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncles young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagans epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one mans reckoning with the truth.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncles young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize

In 1841, and in the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl wearing a red silk dress sits for her portrait. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization - one that will determine whether science, Christianity and reason can be imposed in place of savagery, impulse and desire.

Sota d’una cascada al riu Franklin, l’Aljaz Cosini, guia de riu, s’està ofegant. Assetjat per visions alhora horribles i fabuloses, reviu no només la seva pròpia vida, sinó la de la seva família i el

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Australian writer Richard Flanagan creates the story of a river guide in Tasmania who, as he dies, relives his life.

La vida y la muerte se dan la mano junto a un remoto río de Tasmania, cuando el protagonista se encuentra cerca de su final. Es allí que comienzan a desfilar por su mente, como una fabulosa novela, su propia historia y la de sus peculiares ancestros. Una genealogía que llega a categoría de saga fundacional.

Sonja Buloh was three years old in 1954 and her father drinking too much when her mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania and her drunken father, the shadows of their immigrant past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present so changing his living death and her ordered life.

Dans la société traumatisée post-11 Septembre, une jeune femme, Gina, rencontre un jeune homme, Tariq. Au matin, Tariq a disparu, et les médias sont en alerte : cinq bombes ont été retrouvées dans Sydney, et des images des deux amoureux d'un soir tournent en boucle. Commence une traque dans laquelle les suspects sont tout designes. Gina va alors s'enfoncer dans un monde ou la presomption d'innocence n'existe plus, et subir ce que la peur fait de plus terrible aux humains : la fureur collective.

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.

Esta historia da comienzo cuando Sid Hammet, propietario de un anticuario en la Tasmania de nuestros días, encuentra el diario de William Beulow Gould. A partir de ese momento, Billy Gould se convierte en el protagonista de la narración. Gould, falsificador y convicto en la isla de Sarah en 1828, también es pintor. Su carrera artística se inicia co la falsificación de cuadros de Constable para poder pagar sus deudas en los bares. Más tarde, en la cárcel, empieza a pintar peces y con ellos lleva a cabo una reflexión sobre sus compañeros, sobre las miserias y las inmundicias del ser humano. Willian Beulow Gould se adentra hasta la profundidades del alma humana, moviéndose en ese terreno incierto entre la realidad histórica y la ficción, hasta difuminarse y convertirse en otro pez... ¿o quizá solo sucedió en su imaginación?.

A work of non fiction but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel Question 7 sets the high water mark for what the genre of memoir can be Sunday Times There s so much in Flanagan s beautiful unclassifiable novel cum memoir That it is a masterpiece is without question ObserverThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows By way of H G Wells and Rebecca West s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place Through a hypnotic melding of dream history science and memory Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves I was fascinated troubled and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work I can think of nothing else quite like it Sarah Perry Mighty in its rage and tenderness his most momentous book yet Laura Cumming Spectacular It seems t

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Diemans Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish.Once upon a time, miraculous things happened...

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Annas aged mother is dyingif her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.When Annas finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.