Vintage Classics, 2011. — 276 p. — ISBN: 1742752721 (ISBN13: 9781742752723) From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. ‘And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. ‘I write,' replied Faulkner. ‘And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the...
Random House Australia, 2011. — 264 p. — ASIN B006OZSVEC Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. In the...
Chatto Windus, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1784742198 (ISBN13: 9781784742195) 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 ghost write his memoir in six weeks. But as the...
Random House Australia, 2011. — 292 p. — ASIN B006OZSU2A Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy...
Random House, 2013. — ISBN: 978-1741666700. The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by memories of a love affair with his uncle's wife and of his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war. Post-war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet...
Random House Australia, 2011. — 347 p. — ISBN13: 9781742756103 A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a...
Grove Press, 2008. — 325 p. — ISBN: 0802143547 (ISBN13: 9780802143549) From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night...
Grove Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0802144772 (ISBN13: 9780802144775) Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan's Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most...
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