$33.46
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761343452 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761343459 |
| Author: | Richard Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 446g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 144mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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