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An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
Critic reviews
"“Question 7 is written with a spectacular mixture of fierce energy and then control, care. It is a kind of reckoning, Richard Flanagan with his father and his mother, Tasmania with its past, Japan with its past, the author with himself. It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me.”—Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
“A small masterpiece . . . It’s a memoir about his parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West. That sounds hard going but it is fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down. Also: that cover. Phwoar.”—Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“It is the greatest memoir of parents and place I have read—and this is hardly to touch on its originality. I was amazed by its intense moral and emotional rigour, its power of compassion, the strength and beauty of the prose. I would take it up, read a page, sometimes just a paragraph, and find I had to set it down, dazed, to think about every word and idea before I could even begin to go on. Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet.”—Laura Cumming, author of Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin”—an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story...
- By jason vandenberg on 06-15-24
By: Joseph O'Neill
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- A Novel
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Essie Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her, others are similarly vanishing, yet no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Darkness Inside a Cavern with Tar Thrown on It
- By Gretchen on 06-11-21
By: Richard Flanagan
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First Person
- A Novel
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: David Linski
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 21
Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with, and worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best performance ever!
- By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. on 07-07-18
By: Richard Flanagan
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The Unknown Terrorist
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 36
What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in Australia? Gina Davies is about to find out. From the author of the international bestsellers The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould's Book of Fish comes a fast-paced thriller that paints a devastating picture of contemporary Australia. Five days, three unexploded bombs, and every truth of your life turned into a lie. What would you do?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, Gritty, Thought Provoking
- By Dennis on 10-30-11
By: Richard Flanagan
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