Richard Flanagan

Una obra maestra que transita entre la memoria y la historia para trazar una profunda indagación sobre la inconmensurabilidad de la vida. «A veces me sorprende por qué nos empeñamos en volver a los c

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 taxonomia de doce peces. En aquellos dias 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 ejecucion, Gould escribe un libro sobre los peces que pinta para el medico de la colonia, aficionado a la historia natural. En esas pinturas, ademas de realizar bellas ilustraciones cientificas, Gould introduce trazos inequivocamente humanos. Asi, El libro de los peces de William Gould se convierte en la cronica de la vida en prision, de sus reos y carceleros, y de la cruel naturaleza del hombre, de como el ser humano puede liderar su propia revolucion mediante el amor.Reseñas:Un escritor excelente.Ian McEwan Richard Flanagan roza la grandeza literaria.Chicago Tribune En estas paginas, Flanagan utiliza su talento para regalar al lector no solo la comprension visceral de las crueldades y las corrupciones de la raza humana, sino tambien 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 el [...] se encuentran las voces de, entre otros, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Sterne y Melville.The Independent Hay mucho que saborear en este relato picaresco de monstruosidades, mucha imaginacion desbocada, mucha ironia astuta y mucha anarquia comica.The Guardian Esta extraordinaria novela es una meditacion sobre el colonialismo, o, mas bien, sobre la historia en si misma. [...] Una vision serena y escalofriante de la vida humana, comparable a la de los peces, nadando en la enorme frialdad, solos.The New Yorker

Una obra maestra que transita entre la memoria y la historia para trazar una profunda indagación sobre la inconmensurabilidad de la vida.«A veces me sorprende por qué nos empeñamos en volver a los co

* NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES STARRING JACOB ELORDI AND CIARAN HINDS*Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon, is haunted by a forbidden love as he struggles to keep his men alive in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.Before captivity, Dorrigos affair with Amy Mulvaney reshaped his life. Now, amidst the violence of the Second World War, as Dorrigo struggles to save the men under his commend from starvation, cholera and beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.A landmark work of historical fiction, The Narrow Road to the Deep North explores the power of love and the enduring cost of war.

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.

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

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 els

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.This 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.

FIRST PERSON

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by 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 soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl is rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

Desig és una història sobre l’ambició, els desitjos i els anhels que ens fan humans. L’obra uneix dues icones de la civilització occidental: una exploració àrtica llegendàriament desastrosa i un dels

Striking...brilliantly done' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, 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, love and orange-bellied parrots. 'One of our greatest living novelists' Washington Post

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.