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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX F?MINA ETRANGER - LONGLISTED FOR PRIX M?DICIS - An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times

"Spectacular. . . A book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers." --Colm T?ib?n, author of Long Island

Sometimes I wonder why we keep returning to beginnings--why we seek the single thread we might pull to unravel the tapestry we call our life...

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.

Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593802335


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2024
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2024
Booklist 08/01/2024 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 09/20/2024

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