Gould's Book of Fish

Name: Gould's Book of Fish
Author: Richard Flanagan

by Richard Flanagan

Convict forger creates illuminated book in colonial prison as redemption

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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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