Bücher von Richard Flanagan

»Ein glücklicher Mann hat keine Vergangenheit. Ein unglücklicher hat nichts anderes.« »Zweifellos das beste Buch des Jahres, und es bezeugt eindrucksvoll, dass Richard Flanagan einer unserer größten Schriftsteller ist.« John Burnside Ausgezeichnet mit dem MAN Booker Preis

Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts. The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan's perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful. Richard Flanagan's most recent novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884, when they were first viewed as a group, up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939.