Bøger af Richard Flanagan

"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 Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place, and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves"--

Un extraordinario tapiz de la Australia del siglo XIX.El libro de los peces de William Gould es el retrato de un mundo de convictos, prófugos, flageladores, colonizadores, ladrones y víctimas cuya sangrienta historia se describe en esta novela siguiendo una original taxonomía de doce peces. En aquellos días William Buelow Gould, protagonista de esta historia, es sentenciado a cadena perpetua en la famosa colonia penitenciaria de la isla de Sara, en la Tierra de Van Diemen (hoy Tasmania).Mientras cumple condena a la espera de su ejecución, Gould escribe un libro sobre los peces que pinta para el médico de la colonia, aficionado a la historia natural. En esas pinturas, además de realizar bellas ilustraciones científicas, Gould introduce trazos inequívocamente humanos. Así, El libro de los peces de William Gould se convierte en la crónica de la vida en prisión, de sus reos y carceleros, y de la cruel naturaleza del hombre, de cómo el ser humano puede liderar su propia revolución mediante el amor.Reseñas:«Un escritor excelente.»,BR>Ian McEwan«Richard Flanagan roza la grandeza literaria.»Chicago Tribune«En estas páginas, Flanagan utiliza su talento para regalar al lector no solo la comprensión visceral de las crueldades y las corrupciones de la raza humana, sino también el reconocimiento de sus glorias y su perseverancia, su habilidad para convertir el sufrimiento en arte.»The New York Times«Flanagan vuelve al agua para sumergirnos en la historia colonial y penal de Tasmania. Flotando junto a él [...] se encuentran las voces de, entre otros, García Márquez, Borges, Sterne y Melville.»The Independent«Hay mucho que saborear en este relato picaresco de monstruosidades, mucha imaginación desbocada, mucha ironía astuta y mucha anarquía cómica.»The Guardian«Esta extraordinaria novela es una meditación sobre el colonialismo, o, más bien, sobre la historia en sí misma. [...] Una visión serena y escalofriante de la vida humana, comparable a la de los peces, nadando en la enorme frialdad, solos.»The New YorkerENGLISH DESCRIPTIONOnce upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish.He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled.Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould's Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish

In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters?But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan's expose of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing.From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read.Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.

Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts. The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan's perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful. Richard Flanagan's most recent novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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 effectKif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney.

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.

A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884, when they were first viewed as a group, up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939.