Bøker av Richard Flanagan

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 salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters?But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan's expose of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing.From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read.Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.

Man Bookerprisvinneren Richard Flanagan bygger Den smale vei til det dype nord på historien om sin egen far, en mann som overlevde de japanske fangeleirene under andre verdenskrig, og - ikke minst - overlevde slavearbeidet med å bygge jernbanen fra Thailand til Burma. En historisk begivenhet mange kjenner fra den legendariske filmen Broen over Kwai.Romanen utforsker hva det dypest sett betyr å være et godt og et dårlig menneske i samme skikkelse, og hvor vanskelig, for ikke å si umulig, det er å være en overlevende. Dorrigo Evans kommer tilbake fra livet som krigsfange til et liv der han aldri riktig klarer å føle noe ordentlig. Han gifter seg med en kvinne han ikke elsker, lever et liv han ikke er stolt av, ja, det er nesten like smertefullt å lese om tomheten som dominerer livet hans etter krigen som det er å lese om livet som fange. Han kommer aldri ut av det fengslet han har satt seg selv i.

Det var en gang, da verden fremdeles var ung, før fisken i havet og livet på jorda begynte å bli ødelagt, at en mann ved navn William Buelow Gould ble dømt til livsvarig fengsel i en av de mest fryktede straffekoloniene i det Britiske Imperiet. Der ble han beordret til å male en Fiskebok. En episk fortelling om Australia i det nittende århundre, og en fabel om vår egen tid.

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.

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 effectKif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe.

A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884, when they were first viewed as a group, up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939.