Summary
Richard Flanagan’s Wanting reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan.
Van Diemen’s Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civili…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761048180 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176104818X |
| Author: | Richard Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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