About the book: 2019 / Richard Flanagan is a famous Australian writer, awarded the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The stories he tells from the pages of his books amaze not only with their depth, but also with their realism. “In 1991, when I was working on my first novel, I received an offer from Australia’s greatest swindler and corporate criminal, John Friedrich: to write on his behalf a memoir for six weeks” - this is how Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan begins the story about his scandalous novelty. “First Person” is a unique thing in the auto-fiction genre, where the writer masterfully shows the lives of people who can safely be called the cream of society. Keefe, as the main character is called, will do everything in six weeks to create a myth - an alibi for Siegfried Heidl, an unscrupulous businessman trying to avoid going to prison. But the closer the deadline for submitting the manuscript, the stronger Keefe’s doubts: who will be more in these memoirs - him or Heidl?