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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

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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.

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This thought-provoking book is a mix of unusual personal/family memoir and what feels like a NF version of Labatut‘s How We Cease to Understand the World. It ruminates on life, death, war, and more. I found it fascinating and I‘m glad it serves as my final completed book of 2024. #TOBlonglist

squirrelbrain Interestingā€¦I‘ve been on the fence about reading this one, but may borrow it from the library now. 1d

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Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Yes, you should! I don‘t think you‘ll regret it. Plus, it‘s short, which is always nice. 22h

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An idiosyncratic memoir with much about Flanagan‘s father, WW2, the atomic bomb & invented vignettes about H. G. Wells & the physicists who developed the bomb. It‘s artfully woven together in his usual muscular style. His writing is jaw-droppingly good & he‘s distilled this tapestry of a life history to its essence. Humble, Australian & acutely aware of injustice in Tasmania 1780s through to the war, & how precarious life is, including his own.

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Thank you Richard. Lots to think about āāāāā
First book for the year and he is Aussie .

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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

Early Christmas gift. Will be near the top of my TBR pile.

CarolynM Sending Christmas cards was a bridge too far for me this year, but I‘m wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas šˇ… š¤¶šˇ„š’• 12mo

Jeg @CarolynM I understand. You will hear from me soon. Have a lovely day tomorrow. I‘m very glad you are my Litsy friend. 12mo

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