Richard Flanagan (10 kníh)
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Richard Flanagan Death of a River GuideTHE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014'S MAGNIFICENT FIRST NOVEL. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his...
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Richard Flanagan First Person ENWhat is the truth? 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 Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, 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 offers Kehlmann the job of…
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Richard Flanagan First PersonFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined...
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Richard Flanagan Gould’s Book of Fish ENGould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Buelow Gould, from the pages of history to act as protagonist-narrator.…
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Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North ENThis book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 22014. 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 uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from…
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Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North ENForever 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 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…
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Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North ENWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2014!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 uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings,…
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Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North ENThis book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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 uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from…
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Richard Flanagan Úzká cesta na daleký sever CZV paměti čtenářů zůstává slavná kniha Most přes řeku Kwai z roku 1952, o pět let později úspěšně zfilmovaná. Po více než šedesáti letech se k tragickému dramatu stavby „železnice smrti“, při níž přišlo o život neuvěřitelných sto tisíc lidí, vrátil spisovatel Richard Flanagan. Centrem jeho vyprávění je utrpení australských válečných zajatců v čele s vojenským lékařem Dorrigo Evansem. Historický román je o to cennější…
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