Richard Flanagan: 17 books

Antes de receber o Man Booker Prize 2014 com O caminho estreito para os confins do Norte, Richard Flanagan se destacou com O livro de peixes de Gould, um romance engenhoso que mistura a história da Austrália, colônias penais, o cientificismo do século XIX e a imaginação. O autor apresenta um...

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...

“Death of a River Guide makes good on a truly soaring ambition and flirts with literary greatness. . . . An indelible vision of how surely the history of a land plays its part in shaping the interior landscape of the human beings who occupy it.” -The Chicago TribuneWith Death of a River Guide, Richard...

Aclamado com o Man Booker Prize 2014, um dos mais prestigiosos prêmios literários do mundo, e considerado um dos melhores livros de 2014 por jornais como Guardian, Financial Times e The Washington Post, O caminho estreito para os confins do Norte, de Richard Flanagan, é lançado no Brasil pela...

Richard Flanagan schreef een meesterwerk over de gruwel van de oorlog en de onmogelijkheid van de liefde Augustus, 1943. In een uitzichtloos Japans krijgsgevangenenkamp aan de Birma-Siam Dodenspoorlijn wordt de Australische legerarts Dorrigo Evans achtervolgd door een vroegere liefdesaffaire met Amy,...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post From 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,...

Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks...

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...

**Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review-Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly-Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review-Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World-Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune-Favorite Books of 2002 Christian...

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 bestseller in Australia. Recognized with the Australian Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, it now introduces...

Tasmanië, 1839. Mathinna, een jong Aboriginal-meisje, rent door het natte gras. Op een ruig eiland in een uithoek van de wereld zoekt ze hulp, want haar vader ligt op sterven. Engeland, twintig jaar later. De grote schrijver Charles Dickens is in Manchester een sensatie, maar desondanks wordt hij...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Staten Island is New York City’s smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation’s most liberal, global city. Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City chronicles how this “forgotten borough” has grappled...

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5. Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...