The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

December 28, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — print. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 334 pgs. Library copy. Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize and nominated for the 2014 Miles Franklin, Flanagan’s novel centers on a single day in a Japanese slave labor camp in August 1943 where Australian prisoners of war struggle to survive horrific and torturous conditions as they are forced to build the Burma Railway. Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor, tries desperately to save his follow POWs in the camp while recollections of […]

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Wanting by Richard Flanagan

January 9, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009. Originally published 2008. 272 pgs. Library copy. Flanagan’s novel is set in Van Diemen’s Land (present-day Tasmania) and intertwined two storylines set over twenty years apart – Sir John Franklin and his wife, Lady Jane, as they adopt an Aboriginal girl named Mathinna during Sir John’s tenure as governor of Van Diemen’s Land and, later, Charles Dickens as he helps refute (at the request of Lady Jane) a popular story that Sir John […]

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The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

January 1, 2009 by Christina

Fiction — print. Grove Press, 2007. Originally published 2006. 320 pgs. Library copy. 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 un-exploded bombs at a stadium and her enigmatic lover goes missing, Davies spends […]

Categories: 2009 Reads, Fiction, Oceania • Tags: Richard Flanagan