Question 7
by Richard Flanagan
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Pub Date 30 May 2024 | Archive Date 29 Jun 2024
Random House UK, Vintage | Chatto & Windus
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Description
'A memoir about [Flanagan's] parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West . . . A masterpiece’ Mark Haddon
'Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’ Laura Cumming
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.
'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Tóibín
‘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
Advance Praise
‘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
'Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jig-saw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to HG Wells, and the Martians colonise Tasmania. We are all competitive, of course, so this is not an easy thing to say: but Question 7 may just be the most significant work of Australian art in the last 100 years' - Peter Carey, author of True History of The Kelly Gang
'Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is the strangest and most beautiful memoir I’ve ever read. Magnificent' - Tim Winton, author of Eyrie
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781784745677 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 256 |
