FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return.
Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever his living death and her ordered life.
Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novelsDeath of a River Guide,The Sound of One Hand Clapping,Goulds Book of Fish,The Unknown Terrorist,WantingandThe Narrow Road to the Deep Northhave received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize forThe Narrow Road to the Deep Northin 2014.
