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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
A novel of the cruelty of war, and 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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.August, 1943: Australian surge ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Commemorative HB) by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
A novel of the cruelty of war, and 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 ...Show more
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
'From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history.In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in ...Show more
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (Audio CD) by Richard Flanagan
Category: Audio
In 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return - leaving Bojan to dri ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
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. After spending a night with an attractive stranger, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country?After spending a night with an attractive stranger, Gina Davies becomes a prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three unexploded ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
Category: Australiana
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? 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 sal ...Show more