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**Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review —Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly —Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review —Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World —Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune —Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor —Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly —Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer —Year’s Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune —Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transforme
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- Author
- Richard Flanagan
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857989215
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Psychological
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (101 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Gould's Book of Fish : a Novel in Twelve Fish (2002)
- Gould's Book of Fish (2016)
- Le livre de Gould : roman en douze poissions (2005)
- El libro de los peces de William Gould : Un libro en doce peces (2017)
- Gould's Book of Fish : a Novel in Twelve Fish (2014)
- Книга рыб Гоулда: роман в двенадцати рыбах (2004)
- Gould's Book of Fish : a Novel in Twelve Fish (2001)
- Gould's Book of Fish (2001)
- Gould's Book of Fish : a Novel in Twelve Fish (2003)
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