Congratulations to Richard Flanagan and The Narrow Road to the Deep
North upon winning the Man Booker Prize today! The author is a long
time favorite to the booksellers at Square Books and to a great many
readers and friends he has made on the five visits from his native
Tasmania to this community, most recently on September 16 this year,
when he was proclaimed an honorary citizen of Oxford.
Congratulations to Knopf, his publisher, as well as to Grove Atlantic
-- Morgan Entrekin in particular -- who published his first five books
in the U.S., including the exquisite edition of Gould's Book of Fish.
Flanagan fans around the world will be toasting him tonight, including a
happy crowd upstairs at City Grocery.