Death of a River Guide

Name: Death of a River Guide
Author: Richard Flanagan

by Richard Flanagan

River guide's death by crocodile echoes across family and landscape memory

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Richard Flanagan

Australian novelist whose The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about the Burma-Thailand Railway, won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. His fiction confronts Australian memory and the legacy of war with extraordinary emotional power. He is considered one of the finest prose writers in the country.

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