The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
By Richard Flanagan
Harry Hartog's review
One of the best novels I've read this year and has now shot to the top of my favourite Australian novels. The way everything is examined; social media, climate change, reality and relationships with self and family, it’s almost like a letter to society telling everybody to wake up. Look at the people around you. be honest. be kind. Highly recommend if you’re into Haruki Murakami, Tim Winton or Georgia Blain. - Ben, Marketing
Description
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age', James Rebanks
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.
- ISBN:
- 9781761048159
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 304
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Imprint:
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Weight:
- 208 g