Richard Flanagan

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Once 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.

Man Bookerprisvinneren Richard Flanagan bygger Den smale vei til det dype nord på historien om sin egen far, en mann som overlevde de japanske fangeleirene under andre verdenskrig, og – ikke minst – overlevde slavearbeidet med å bygge jernbanen fra Thailand til Burma. En historisk begivenhet mange kjenner fra den legendariske filmen Broen over Kwai.Romanen utforsker hva det dypest sett betyr å være et godt og et dårlig menneske i samme skikkelse, og hvor vanskelig, for ikke å si umulig, det er å være en overlevende. Dorrigo Evans kommer tilbake fra livet som krigsfange til et liv der han aldri riktig klarer å føle noe ordentlig. Han gifter seg med en kvinne han ikke elsker, lever et liv han ikke er stolt av, ja, det er nesten like smertefullt å lese om tomheten som dominerer livet hans etter krigen som det er å lese om livet som fange. Han kommer aldri ut av det fengslet han har satt seg selv i.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel's highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciar n Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker. "Magnificent." --The New York Times Book Review "Nothing short of a masterpiece." --Financial Times August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, 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.

Man Bookerprisvinneren Richard Flanagan bygger Den smale vei til det dype nord på historien om sin egen far, en mann som overlevde de japanske fangeleirene under andre verdenskrig, og . ikke minst . overlevde slavearbeidet med å bygge jernbanen fra Thailand til Burma. En historisk begivenhet mange kjenner fra den legendariske filmen Broen over Kwai. Romanen utforsker hva det dypest sett betyr å være et godt og et dårlig menneske i samme skikkelse, og hvor vanskelig, for ikke å si umulig, det er å være en overlevende. Dorrigo Evans kommer tilbake fra livet som krigsfange til et liv der han aldri riktig klarer å føle noe ordentlig. Han gifter seg med en kvinne han ikke elsker, lever et liv han ikke er stolt av, ja, det er nesten like smertefullt å lese om tomheten som dominerer livet hans etter krigen som det er å lese om livet som fange. Han kommer aldri ut av det fengslet han har satt seg selv i.

Richard Flanagan mottok Man Booker-prisen i 2014 for romanen Den smale veien til det dype nord. Goulds fiskebok var hans internasjonale gjennombrudd og er på samme tid en fantastisk episk fortelling om Australia i det nittende århundre, og en fabel om vår egen tid. Flanagan er en av Australias mest kjente og best selgende forfattere. I tillegg er han prisbelønt både i sitt eget land og internasjonalt. Han mottok i 2002 The Commonwealth Prize for Goulds fiskebok. Alt begynner med at fortelleren finner en gammel bok. Boka øver en nesten magisk tiltrekning på ham. Han leser den til han kan den utenat, og han bruker all sin tid på å få den autentisert. Boka han finner er Goulds fiskebok. Den inneholder fiskene straff-fangen Gould malte da han satt i fangeleir i Tasmania på midten av 1800-tallet. At Gould gjorde dette er et veldokumentert fakta, men det som er spesielt med boka vår forteller har, er at den også inneholder Goulds dagboksnotater fra den grusomme og bestialske fangeøya Sarah Island utenfor kysten av Tasmania. I følge offisielle kilder eksisterer ingen slik dagbok. En dag fortelleren sitter på bar og drikker -- noe han gjør oftere og oftere ettersom ingen vil tro ham -- må han slå lens, og mens han er borte forsvinner boka. Dermed begynner han å gjenfortelle Goulds historie. I en merkelig blanding av moderne og arkaiske ord og vendinger gjenforteller han en historie som er nesten for grusom til å tro. Gould kom til Tasmania i 1803 som ung matros. Uheldige omstendigheter og et oppfinnsomt gemytt sørget for at han ble dømt til tilsammen 49 års straffarbeid for tjueri, obsternasighet og respektløshet overfor kongen. Det er disse årene Gould forteller om i dagboken. Fangeøyas kirurg oppdager hans talent for å male og setter ham i gang med å male fisken i havet. I tillegg til å male skriver Gould i all hemmelighet sin dagbok. Han bruker det 'blekket' han har for hånden: blod, bladsaft, oppmalt skjell blandet med spytt og fett. Historien Gould forteller er om et lite samfunn av mer eller mindre forrykte menn. Fangevokterne er sadistiske med pervers glede av å pine straff-fangene. Fangene blir gale av sult, redsel og tortur. Likevel unnlater ikke mennesker å forsøke å skape seg et slags liv. De som forsøker å rømme, overlever ikke lenge. Boka er full av referanser til den klassiske anglo-amerikanske episke romanen. Flanagan bruker et språk og en stil som skaper en egen fascinerende og original stemning og tone i boka. Dette er virkelig en bok man ikke har lest maken til. I partier flyter den som en slags drømmeaktig fantasi i andre er den fylt av grim realisme.

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 spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects -- what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.

A forger and thief sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony in Tasmania, William Buelow Gould escapes, only to once again land in prison, where the prison doctor Lempriere utilizes his painting talents to create an illustrated taxonomy of the country's exotic sea creatures, in a novel set in early nineteenth-century Australia. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Death of a River Guide was called "haunting and ambitious" by The New York Times Book Review and "a remarkable achievement" by The Washington Post Book World. It confirms Richard Flanagan's place among the world's most remarkable voices. Aljaz Cosini is leading a group of tourists on a raft tour down Tasmania's wild Franklin River when his greatest fear is realized — a tourist falls overboard. An ordinary man with many regrets, Aljaz rises to an uncharacteristic heroism, and offers his own life in trade. Trapped under a rapid and drowning, Aljaz is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous. He sees Couta Ho, the beautiful, spirited woman he loved, and witnesses his uncle Reg having his teeth pulled and sold to pay for a ripple-iron house. He sees cities grow from the wild rain forest and a tree burst into flower in midwinter over his grandfather's forest grave. As the entirety of Tasmanian life — flora and fauna — sings him home, Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking, where his family tree branches into stories of all human families, stories that ground him in the land and reveal the soul history of his country. "A triumphant tour de force, a novel that succeeds brilliantly in its audacious design...." — Philip Gerard, The Raleigh News & Observer "An enormous, intricate, intimate tapestry not only of the wilderness, but also of a family, an expansive tribal community." — Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun "Ricard Flanagan's second novel makes good on a truly soaring ambition and flirts with literary greatness." — Robert Cohen, Chicago Tribune

The Australian Booksellers' Association Book of the Year begins in 1954, in Tasmania where Bojan Buloh brings his family to start a new life away from Slovenia's privations of war and refugee settlements. Bojan's wife abandons him to care for their three-year-old daughter Sonja alone. Sonja returns to Tasmania 35 years later, and to a father haunted by memories of the war and other recent horrors.

This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed, rather than a depiction of them as passive victims of the system whose existence signals economic decline and social injustice. Beginning with the first appearance of the jobless as a political group in 1884, Richard Flanagan reduces large amounts of available information on their activities-- outlining the major points that define the nature of the politics of the unemployed, discussing their troubled leadership, and documenting the government's response to their efforts through the end of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939. Curious as to why much of the information about Britain's unemployed has been overlooked, Flanagan lifts the literature on the subject out of what he considers to be a largely fictionalized view by presenting a factual, historically relevant account examining the unemployed in relation to their society, past and present, and how they were able to overcome their diversity at certain times of crisis to form a single political voice and gain some control over their lives. The study reaches beyond the immediate subject, as its conclusions reflect upon the connection between unemployment and any industrialized society, the viability of certain solutions to the conflicts between classes, and most importantly, the political influence that even the most disadvantaged can exert if encouraged to take an active role in their future.