Abstract

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Richard Flanagan, in full Richard Miller Flanagan, Longford, Tasmania, an Australian writer who was known for a series of critically acclaimed works and widely considered the finest Australian novelist of his generation. In the present novel The Unknown Terrorist, he delivers a mesmerizing thriller that demonstrates the breadth of his range and vision and it is one of the most brilliant work in the English language today and turns his attention to the most timely of subjects. It is an extraordinary achievement, chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is an exercise in genre fiction a thriller that happen to be genuinely thrilling. It's a novel about the state of a nation, its apostrophies, Australian pole dancer called Doll. She finds herself being mistaken for someone else and falling, abruptly down a black rabbit hole, her identity stolen, her daily life torpedoed, her most fundamental expectations about life blown to smithereens or small pieces.