by Richard Flanagan · Atlantic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843540700
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«Gould's Book of Fish» is the historical novel by Richard Flanagan, published by Atlantic Books in paperback (404 pages, in English).
In 1828, in Van Diemen's Land, convict William Buelow Gould falls in love with a Black woman and is forced to paint the fish of the British penal colony; through these plates, the narrative combines love, violence and miraculous episodes.
This novel, subtitled «A Novel in Twelve Fish», was published in 2003. The author, Richard Flanagan, was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2014.
For readers of historical fiction and Australian literature, interested in penal colonies and narratives with fantastical elements.
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.
