The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Flanagan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreLiterary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781760899967
ClassificationsDewey:A823.4
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint Penguin Random House Australia
Publication Date 19 October 2021
Publication Country Australia

Description

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. 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.

Author Biography

Richard Flanagan's novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish. A rapid on the Franklin River is named after him.