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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Death of a River Guide about Aljaz, Cosini, Franklin with the genre: Literature & Fiction, World Literature.
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conversations.value: In this brilliant, labyrinthine second novel, a drowning man named Aljaz Cosini is granted visions of his family history stretching into the distant past--even as he revisits his final days along the remote and treacherous Franklin River. the author's protagonist has been away from Tasmania for the last decade. Sick, lonely, and financially strapped, he returns to his hometown and soon runs into an old colleague known as Pig's Breath, who offers him a low-paying stint as a river guide: