By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not... Zobraziť viac
V paměti čtenářů zůstává slavná kniha Most přes řeku Kwai z roku 1952, o pět let později úspěšně zfilmovaná. Po více než šedesáti letech se k tragickému dramatu stavby „železnice smrti“, při níž přišlo o život neuvěřitelných sto tisíc lidí... Zobraziť viac
What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner... Zobraziť viac
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black wom Zobraziť viac
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows... Zobraziť viac
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined... Zobraziť viac
V paměti čtenářů zůstává slavná kniha Most přes řeku Kwai z roku 1952, o pět let později úspěšně zfilmovaná. Po více než šedesáti letech se k tragickému dramatu stavby „železnice smrti“, při níž přišlo o život neuvěřitelných sto tisíc lidí... Zobraziť viac
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, Zobraziť viac
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it... Zobraziť viac
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it... Zobraziť viac
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it... Zobraziť viac
This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost... Zobraziť viac
This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, ... Zobraziť viac
Gould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism... Zobraziť viac
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted ... Zobraziť viac
This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 22014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW ... Zobraziť viac
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, Zobraziť viac
THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014'S MAGNIFICENT FIRST NOVEL. 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... Zobraziť viac
