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Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish

<Div> FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened.... </div>

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  • "Sammlung"
  • "Gould's book of fish"@pl
  • "Gould's book of fish"@it

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  • "<Div> FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened.... </div>"@en
  • "William Gould, a prisoner at the Sarah Island penal colony in Tasmania, paints a book of fish, falls in love with the warden's mistress, and keeps a record of his life."
  • "In the early nineteenth century, forger and thief William Buelow Gould lands in prison in Australia, where the prison doctor utilizes his painting talents to create an illustrated taxonomy of the country's exotic sea creatures."
  • "Een strafgevangene in 1830 op Van Diemen's Island weet te overleven door zijn uitzonderlijke tekenkunst."
  • "The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical epic of 19th century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Powieść australijska"@pl
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Novel·la australiana"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "History"

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  • "Het boek van Gould : een roman in twaalf vissen"
  • "Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish"@en
  • "Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish"
  • "Goulds Buch der Fische Ein Roman in zwölf Fischen"
  • "Gould's book of fish"
  • "Gould's book of fish"@en
  • "Le livre de Gould : roman en douze poissons"
  • "La vita sommersa di Gould"
  • "La vita sommersa di Gould"@it
  • "El Libro de los peces de William Gould"
  • "Goulds Buch der Fische ein Roman in zwölf Fischen"
  • "Williama Goulda Księga ryb : powieść w dwunastu rybach"@pl
  • "El libro de los peces de William Gould"@es
  • "El libro de los peces de William Gould"
  • "Guldi dzknagirkʻě : vep tasnerku dzknerov"
  • "Gould's Book of Fish"@en
  • "Gould's Book of Fish"
  • "Encheiridio ichthyōn : mythistorēma se 12 psaria"
  • "Guldova knjiga o ribi : roman u dvanaest riba"
  • "Goulds bog om fisk : en roman i tolv fisk"
  • "Goulds bog om fisk : en roman i tolv fisk"@da
  • "Gould's book of fish a novel in twelve fish"@en
  • "Gould's book of fish a novel in twelve fish"
  • "La vita sommersa di gould"
  • "Goulds book of fish : a novel in twelve fish"@en
  • "Goulds Buch der Fische : ein Roman in zwölf Fischen"
  • "Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish"@en
  • "Le livre de Gould : roman en douze poissions"
  • "Goulds bok om fiskar : en roman i tolv fiskar"@sv
  • "Goulds bok om fiskar : en roman i tolv fiskar"
  • "[Gould's book of fish]"
  • "Gould's Book of Fish : a novel in twelve fish"
  • "Williama Goulda księga ryb : powieść w dwunastu rybach"

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