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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

by Richard Flanagan

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.

Format
Hardback
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Publish Date
September 2020

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.

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