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Question 7

By Richard Flanagan
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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan is a profound exploration of his life, intertwining personal memoir with broader reflections on literature, politics, and the human condition. As Flanagan delves into his experiences, he offers insights into the complexities of identity and the art of storytelling, creating a rich tapestry that resonates with universal themes of memory and existence.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy deeply personal explorations of family history and the intertwining of personal and national narratives. It offers a rich tapestry of memory and identity, penned by a master storyteller, which will resonate with readers who appreciate introspective and reflective memoirs.

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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.

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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ISBN: 9781761343452

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 217.0mm

Weight: 446g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

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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