Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781761048111
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2023
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd


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.