Gould's book of fish

R$ 132,90

Sinopse

Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.

Participantes

Autor: Richard Flanagan

Autor

RICHARD FLANAGAN

Richard Flanagan nasceu em Longford, Tasmânia, em 1961. Estreou como romancista em 1994, com Death of a River Guide. Publicou O livro de peixes de Gould e A terrorista desconhecida (2009), romance policial norteado pela paranoica realidade do mundo após o atentado de Onze de Setembro. Colaborou no roteiro do filme Austrália, estrelado por Nicole Kidman e Hugh Jackman. O caminho estreito para os confins do norte (2015), é um romance que ambienta-se naconstrução da ferrovia de Burma. Encomendada pelo Japão para transportar suas tropas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, foi construída com o trabalho forçado de prisioneiros de guerra — entre eles, o pai de Flanagan, a quem dedicou o romance, premiado com o Man Booker Prize de 2014.