- Fiction, Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous women, Aboriginal Australian Children
Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound effect on his own life.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Richard Flanagan
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Raig Verd Editorial, Vintage, Random House Australia
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, heb
- ISBN
- 9783458357124
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Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, *Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish* (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), *The Unknown Terrorist* and *Wanting* have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished *The Narrow Road to the Deep North,* was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. ([Source)](http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/9780701189051)
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