Question 7
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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 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 out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
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"Flanaga weaves strands about his parents, Australian history, and the atomic bomb into a mesmerizing narrative tapestry in this dazzling, one-of-a-kind memoir ..."
"A haunting, jagged, sparkling narrative puzzle in which the pieces deliberately refuse to fit."
"Interweave[s] beautifully evoked memories of the author's childhood in a poor and extended Catholic family in Tasmania ..."
"Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre can be."
"Flanagan is a powerful storyteller ..."
"That it is a masterpiece is without question."
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