Death Of A River Guide
By Richard Flanagan
Harry Hartog's review
You wouldn't think this is a debut. It's lyrical, the landscape is alive (and threatening), and it plays with magical realism without overdoing it. Follow the protagonist while his life hangs by a thread, pummelled and pinned by waves, and travels back into time through his conscience revisiting family and the structure of early Australia. - Ben, Marketing
Description
'One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.' Times Literary Supplement
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature.
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 family and forebears. In the rainforest waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities, and finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking. As the river rises, his visions grow more turbulent, and in the flood of his past Aljaz discovers the soul history of his country.
- ISBN:
- 9781761048111
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 336
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Imprint:
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Weight:
- 251 g