by Richard Flanagan · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330352826
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«Death of a River Guide» is the literary novel by Richard Flanagan, published by Picador in paperback (326 pages, in English).
Aljaz Cosini, a rafting guide, becomes trapped under a rapid on the Franklin River while trying to save a tourist. On the verge of drowning, his consciousness fills with visions that fuse his life, the woman he loved, his family's history and the memory of Tasmania, in a narrative that interweaves individual destiny with the collective past.
Originally published in 1994, it was nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1995; this Picador edition dates from 1997.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism with an interest in Australian history and the Tasmanian landscape.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation" according to The Economist, Flanagan has also worked as a film director and screenwriter.
