- Title:
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Wanting (MP3)
- Written by:
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Richard Flanagan
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 23 minutes
- MP3 size:
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321 MB
- Published:
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August 01 2009
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742333335
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; Indigenous Peoples; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2010
Winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Fiction Book Award 2009
Shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards / Fiction 2008
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling writer Richard Flanagan.
Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by 19th-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism.
Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an 18-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage sex worker, goes drinking on a fatal night.