Question 7 - Richard Flanagan

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"A breathtaking new book about love, family and nuclear fission from one of our greatest writers"

Synopsis

'Intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder

Who loves longer?

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 a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.

Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science and memory it shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

‘Magnificent’ Tim Winton

'It’s a big call to make for a Booker winner, but Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan’s greatest yet' Guardian (Australia)

'Brilliant . . . While reading I found myself abruptly shutting the book again and again and steadying my own heart with a hand at my throat' Tara June Winch

My Review

This read was amazing! Very few books in a life time really hit you at your core but the way this read flows the stunning prose, the almost jarring delves into history and the entwining of the fragments of time but left me almost breathless.

There are so may elements to this book is so hard to clarify its subject. An autobiography with captivating reflection, part family memoir the journey of the authors parents past Utterly absorbing, An emotive dive into history.

One of the most thought provoking books I have ever read, the title is fitting inspired from the short stories Anton Chekhov the almost impossible questions very fitting is this book is so impossible to describe.

From war to love, the trauma of youthful adventures and the horrors of POW imprisonment and the shaping of family and world history in literacy and in politics.

This read will settle into your braIn and never leave, I often write about books that I have to finish in one sitting to get to the end! but no not this you need to savour the details, you need breaks just to allow your own mind to contemplate the work.

Poignant and haunting, this book deserves every accolade and award I absolutely know must be headed it way!

Author Bio

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 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish.

A major television series of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is now in production, directed by celebrated film director Justin Kurzel (The True History of the Kelly Gang, Macbeth, Nitram), and starring Jacob Elordi (Euphoria, Saltburn, Priscilla) and Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.

All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.