Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar. Each of his novels has attracted major praise. His first, Death of a River Guide (1994), was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, as were his next two, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997) and Gould's Book of Fish (2001). His earlier, non-fiction titles include books about the Gordon River, student issues, and the story of conman John Friedrich.
Two of his novels are set on the West Coast of Tasmania; where he lived in the township of Rosebery as a child. Death of a River Guide relates to the Franklin River, Gould's Book of Fish to the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, and The Sound of One Hand Clapping to the Hydro settlements in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.
Richard Flanagan's story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife — journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel, from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival, from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road To The Deep North is about the impossibility of love. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds.
發表於2024-12-26
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曾認識一位塔斯馬尼亞人,最深的印象,是他身上一種曠野的味道。似乎無論怎麼樣周遊世界,融入不同文化,做瞭行業精英,骨子裏有種父輩原始不羈又傳統保守的old school風格如影相隨。 如果這種原始而不羈於已被所謂文明局囿的拘束可以被定義為塔斯馬尼亞特質,Flanagan顯然加強...
評分丁尼生在《尤利西斯》中這樣寫道:“我自己是我全部經曆的一部分,而全部經驗,也隻是一座拱門。”詩句裏,奧德修斯在特洛伊之戰後曆經波摺迴到傢中,那把老骨頭卻仍然在十年漂泊的餘震中咯咯作響,期待再次起航。嚮往未知,不懈奮鬥,熱血未冷,一個英雄。 而理查德·弗蘭納根...
評分二戰時期,理查德·弗蘭納根的父親成為日軍的戰俘,被迫修建泰緬鐵路的“死亡綫”,作為戰俘營的幸存者之一,他在期間的經曆瞭人間地獄般地磨難,因為父親的親生經曆,促使瞭作者曆經12年,幾度易稿,寫瞭這本《深入北方的小路》。這本書主要講述的是二戰時期一位澳大利亞的軍...
評分今天讀瞭230頁英文小說,讀完瞭《深入北方的小路》(the narrow road to the deep north),此書是2014年的布剋奬獲奬作品; 布剋奬評委們認為此書是布剋奬頒奬史上難得的經典作品(masterpiece),讀完此書我認為這種評價完全閤情閤理,在我看來此書在某種程度上可以用"偉大"...
評分圖書標籤: 布剋奬 小說 澳大利亞 文學 理查·弗拉納根 2014 英文原版 布剋
實至名歸。盡管直接描述POW的篇幅不多 但那傳達的痛苦 無能為力和悲傷讓人哭都哭不齣來。誰都不是幸存者。等中文版齣來我一定要再讀一遍
評分邂逅:2015年5月1日央圖; 旅程:2015年5月1日-2015年5月26日; 地點:坡縣、歐洲; Only after I turned over the last page did it suddenly strike me that it has been the best novel I have ever read for nearly two years. The beginning, or indeed the whole plot, was somewhat blatant: war, love, betrayal, prisoner, feeling guilty or the lack of it. But it was an entirely new experien
評分2014年讀到的最好的小說
評分2014布剋奬
評分0724-0802 無論是文字還是書本人都堪稱優美。即使對戰爭的殘酷有所準備,看完之後也不免覺得壓抑。倒因為不是因為戰爭描寫。事實上關於POW的內容並不多,而那些人生的無奈與失落,貫穿著整本書的情緒。
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