Richard Flanagan writes Australian literary fiction about war, memory, colonial history and lives shaped by moral compromise. The Narrow Road to the Deep North follows surgeon Dorrigo Evans and other Australian prisoners forced to build the Burma Railway during the Second World War, while moving across later decades of memory, marriage and guilt. Gould's Book of Fish uses a much stranger historical voice to depict a convict colony in nineteenth-century Tasmania, and The Sound of One Hand Clapping follows Slovenian immigrants rebuilding life after war. Flanagan's prose ranges from realistic to highly stylised, but Tasmania and historical violence recur throughout his work. The Narrow Road to the Deep North is the main entry for wartime fiction; Gould's Book of Fish suits readers wanting experimental historical narrative. Read more Less
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