Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Homer Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness

Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness

this is a heartbreaking story

Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney

She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella

their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past

Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Homer Rashkolnikov is dogged by madnessFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. In the rainforest waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities,