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 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.
Adult
Imprint: Knopf Australia
Format: Hardback
RRP: $40.00
Categories: Biography, Memoirs, True stories, History and Warfare
Categories: Biography, Memoirs, True stories, History and Warfare
Reading Age: Adult
RRP: Hardback non-fiction NZ$40.00
Published in NZ by Penguin Random House New Zealand
