by RichardFlanagan (Author)
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 404
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 15 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 1843540703
ISBN 13: 9781843540700
Book Overview: A masterpiece of literature from the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014
Prizes: Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2002 and APA Design Awards: Hodder Headline Best Designed Literary Fiction Book 2002 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2002 and Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 2002. Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002 and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best Fiction Book 2002.