Richard Flanagan

Una obra maestra que transita entre la memoria y la historia para trazar una profunda indagación sobre la inconmensurabilidad de la vida. «A veces me sorprende por qué nos empeñamos en volver a los c

Una obra maestra que transita entre la memoria y la historia para trazar una profunda indagación sobre la inconmensurabilidad de la vida.«A veces me sorprende por qué nos empeñamos en volver a los co

Si H. G. Wells no hagués fugit de la seva història d’amor amb Rebecca West, potser no hauria escrit mai un llibre on una arma era capaç de devastar el món en pocs minuts. Si Leo Szilard, un físic hon

"El terrorista desconocido" es una novela sorprendentemente clarividente que presenta las cadencias de la vida urbana; donde el miedo invade las vidas individuales, empujando a una mujer cada vez más cercana al punto de ruptura. Del ganador del MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014, Richard Flanagan.

FIRST PERSON

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks.Kehlmann accepts but soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl is rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemens Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklins reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism.Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reasons triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night.

DEL GANADOR DEL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014. Atrapado dentro de una cascada en el salvaje río Franklin, el guía de Tasmania, Aljaz Cosini, es encontrado ahogado. Mientras los turistas que ha estado guiando por el rio tratan de salvarlo, Aljaz se ve acosado por visiones horribles. A medida que aumentan los rapidos, Aljaz vuelve a vivir no solo su propia vida, sino tambien los sueños de su pais.

En 1941, Dorrigo Evans, jeune officier médecin, vient à peine de tomber amoureux lorsque la guerre s’embrase et le précipite, avec son bataillon, en Orient puis dans l’enfer d’un camp de travail japo

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Franklin has disappeared with his crew on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage.

Desig és una història sobre l’ambició, els desitjos i els anhels que ens fan humans. L’obra uneix dues icones de la civilització occidental: una exploració àrtica llegendàriament desastrosa i un dels

Six weeks to write for your life... 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 A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, 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 proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks. Kehlmann accepts but begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him-his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl-and who is Kif Kehlmann? By turns compelling, comic and chilling, First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** ''A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be'' Sunday Times ''Theres so much . . . in Flanagans beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir . . . That it is a masterpiece is without question'' Observer This is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . . By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca Wests affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagans father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die. Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves. I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it Sarah Perry Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet Laura Cumming ''Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me'' Colm Toibin ''Question 7 could be Richard Flanagans greatest yet'' Guardian Fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down Mark Haddon Richard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014

S'il n'avait craint les sentiments que lui inspirait la jeune Rebecca West, H. G. Wells, le père de la science-fiction, ne se serait pas enfui en Suisse pour y écrire un livre dans lequel il imagine,

In 1841, and in the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl wearing a red silk dress sits for her portrait. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization - one that will determine whether science, Christianity and reason can be imposed in place of savagery, impulse and desire.

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 under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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 under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

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 uncles 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 change his life forever.Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagans epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one mans reckoning with the truth.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncles young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncles 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 change his life forever.This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.