Wanting

Richard Flanagan

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Penguin
12 April 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Richard Flanagan's Wanting reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan.

Van Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.

Years pass. Sir John Franklin disappears on an Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of cannibalism filter back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin's story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own soul.

As several lives become entwined, Wanting transforms the classical myth of Leda and the swan into a novel about the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape us all.

By: Richard Flanagan
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 188g
ISBN: 9781761048180
ISBN 10: 176104818X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as 'one of our greatest living novelists' and as 'among the most versatile writers in the English language' by the New York Review of Books. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish. His most recent book is Question 7.