FIRST PERSON - FLANAGAN RICHARD - Random UK

LE LIVRE DE GOULD - FLANAGAN RICHARD - Actes Sud

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NO - FLANAGAN RICHARD - Random USA

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post

From the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.

August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.

A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Dorrigo Evans, medico di origine tasmaniana, è stato deportato in un campo di prigionia giapponese dove, insieme a molti connazionali, viene impiegato nella costruzione della Ferrovia della Morte, la linea ferroviaria tra Bangkok e la Birmania che avrebbe dovuto permettere all'esercito nipponico d'invadere l'India. Un'impresa sovrumana, che costerà la vita a centinaia di migliaia di uomini. Dorrigo fa il possibile per salvare i suoi compagni dalla fame, dalle malattie e dalle violenze delle guardie. A sostenerlo il ricordo di una fugace storia d'amore, vissuta anni prima con la giovane moglie di suo zio. Una manciata di giorni che vale una vita. Una promessa mai pronunciata.

This expanded and thoroughly updated second edition of the classic text continues to offer careful analysis and penetrating critiques of the myriad of psychotherapies now current in the field of psychology. With two new chapters on preventative intervention strategies and the person of the Christian psychotherapist, Modern Psychotherapies remains an indispensable tool for therapists and students.

Wanting begins in 1839 when the famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin assumes governorship of the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. His wife, Lady Jane, becomes captivated with a lively young Aboriginal girl called Mathinna, one of the few survivors of a brutal war of extermination waged against the island's original inhabitants. The Franklins adopt Mathinna, making her the subject of a grand social experiment - to determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed in the place of savagery, impulse, and desire.
Years later, on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Sir John Franklin, with two ships and his crew, disappears in the Arctic. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering 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 life.
As several lives are transfigured by unexpected events and unnoticed tragedies, Wanting transforms into a stunning meditation on the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape our lives.

A remarkable Australian novel detailing the life of a young woman who goes on the run, after false accusations by the police and media of being a terrorist. A blistering, razor-sharp critique of the current hysteria about terrorism, and our dan

*Why do seemingly rational, intelligent people commit acts of cruelty and violence?

*What are the root causes of destructive behavior?

*How can we control the emotions that drive these impulses?

*Can we learn to live at peace with ourselves and others?

Imagine sitting with the Dalai Lama in his private meeting room with a small group of world-class scientists and philosophers. The talk is lively and fascinating as these leading minds grapple with age-old questions of compelling contemporary urgency. Daniel Goleman, the internationally bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, provides the illuminating commentary—and reports on the breakthrough research this historic gathering inspired.

Destructive Emotions

Buddhist philosophy tells us that all personal unhappiness and interpersonal conflict lie in the “three poisons”: craving, anger, and delusion. It also provides antidotes of astonishing psychological sophistication--which are now being confirmed by modern neuroscience. With new high-tech devices, scientists can peer inside the brain centers that calm the inner storms of rage and fear. They also can demonstrate that awareness-training strategies such as meditation strengthen emotional stability—and greatly enhance our positive moods.

The distinguished panel members report these recent findings and debate an exhilarating range of other topics: What role do destructive emotions play in human evolution? Are they “hardwired” in our bodies? Are they universal, or does culture determine how we feel? How can we nurture the compassion that is also our birthright? We learn how practices that reduce negativity have also been shown to bolster the immune system. Here, too, is an enlightened proposal for a school-based program of social and emotional learning that can help our children increase self-awareness, manage their anger, and become more empathetic.

Throughout, these provocative ideas are brought to life by the play of personalities, by the Dalai Lama’s probing questions, and by his surprising sense of humor. Although there are no easy answers, the dialogues, which are part of a series sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute, chart an ultimately hopeful course. They are sure to spark discussion among educators, religious and political leaders, parents—and all people who seek peace for themselves and the world.


The Mind and Life Institute sponsors cross-cultural dialogues that bring together the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholars with Western scientists and philosophers. Mind and Life VIII, on which this book is based, took place in Dharamsala, India, in March 2000.

Flanagan's acclaimed novel which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize For Fiction 2002 - and which was universally well received by the critics. Set in a penal colony in Tasmania in the early nineteenth century, it tells the many-l