Short Black 1 - by Richard Flanagan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts. </p> <p><em>The Australian Disease</em> is Richard Flanagan's perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.</p> <p>Richard Flanagan's most recent novel <em>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</em> won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.</p>
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