Richard Flanagan is an acclaimed Australian writer who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize 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” is how Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan begins the story of his scandalous new novel. “First Person” is a unique piece 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?