A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers.It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return -- leaving...
A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaime...
As a river guide is trapped under a rapid and begins to drown, the entirety of his life in Tasmania--flora and fauna--sings him home. Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking and he is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous.
As a river guide is trapped under a rapid and begins to drown, the entirety of his life in Tasmania--flora and fauna--sings him home. Aljaz arrives at...
Winner of the Commonwealth Prize "New York Times Book Review"Notable Fiction 2002 "Entertainment Weekly"Best Fiction of 2002 "Los Angeles Times Book Review"Best of the Best 2002 "Washington Post Book World"Raves 2002 "Chicago Tribune"Favorite Books of 2002 "Christian Science Monitor"Best Books 2002 "Publishers Weekly"Best Books of 2002 "The Cleveland Plain Dealer"Year s Best Books "Minneapolis Star Tribune"Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be...
Winner of the Commonwealth Prize "New York Times Book Review"Notable Fiction 2002 "Entertainment Weekly"Best Fiction of 2002 "Los Angeles ...
From the internationally acclaimed author of "Gould s Book of Fish" comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. 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 when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In "The Unknown Terrorist," one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects what our leaders...
From the internationally acclaimed author of "Gould s Book of Fish" comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. ...
This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed, rather than a depiction of them as passive victims of the system whose existence signals economic decline and social injustice. Beginning with the first appearance of the jobless as a political group in 1884, Richard Flanagan reduces large amounts of available information on their activities-- outlining the major points that define the nature of the politics of the unemployed, discussing their troubled leadership, and documenting...
This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of th...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." --The Washington Post
In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." --The Washington Pos...
