Books by Richard Flanagan
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review 1: Dit is niet alleen een boek over de bouw van de Birmalijn door Australische krijgsgevangenen, het gaat ook over het leven van de hoofdpersoon, een chirurg. Ik heb zelden de oorlog in Azie zo beschrven gezien. De wreedheid en de zinloosheid van alles komt in de buurt van wat er in...
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review 1: This book was such an unexpected find, I love Dickens and to have a made up Charles Dickens with all the other characters come to life was such a treat! I had great hopes for Mathinna but the exercise of her being used as a social experiment said it all. To die at age 17 at the h...
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review 1: This started out as a five star book - the set up, the protagonist, the sections in the POW camp - all very powerful. Then, there were bits of writing I thought were clumsy and some head-jumping which could have been edited better and it went down to a four. And then came the fin...