{"product_id":"9781784745677","title":"Question 7","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Flanagan, Richard \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/05\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784745677,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 CummingWho 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlanagan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43291922956332,"sku":"9781784745677","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781784745677.jpg?v=1714812201","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781784745677","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}