Richard Flanagan

Tietokirja kuin romaani, muistelmateos kuin vyöryvä ketjureaktio. Näennäisen irrallisia asioita: Tieteiskirjailija H. G. Wellsin syrjähyppy nuoren naisen kanssa. Ydinfysiikan kehitys ja kirjailijan vanhempien rakkaustarina. Isän sotavankiajat Hiroshiman seudulla, Tasmanian alkuperäisasukkaiden kansanmurha, nuori mies silmätysten kuoleman kanssa. Richard Flanaganin käsissä näistä elementeistä muodostuvat sekä yksilön elämä että historian syvät vedet. Eri tarinalinjat yhdistyvät koskettavaksi kokonaisuudeksi, joka on taidokas punos valinnoista ja niiden ennustamattomista seurauksista. Genremääritelmiä kaihtava Seitsemäs kysymys valittiin vuoden parhaaksi tietokirjaksi, mutta se sai myös useita romaanipalkintoehdokkuuksia. Omaelämäkerrallisuutta, tositapahtumia ja fiktiivisiä aineksia yhdistävä teos on syvällinen mutta saavutettava lukunautinto W. G. Sebaldin hengessä.

KNIGA LAUREATA BUKEROVSKOJ PREMII. Ot odnogo potseluja voznikaet tsepnaja reaktsija - shedevr memuarov ot laureata premii Bejli Gifford i Bukerovskoj premii. Cherez roman Gerberta Uellsa i Rebekki Uest, cherez jadernuju fiziku 1930-kh godov i ottsa Flenagana, rabotajuschego nedaleko ot Khirosimy, eta tsepochka sobytij dostigaet kulminatsii, kogda molodoj chelovek okazyvaetsja v lovushke u ustja burnoj reki, ne znaja, kak emu zhit dalshe. "Luchshaja kniga Flenagana... Blestjaschee razmyshlenie o proshlom odnogo cheloveka i istorii, kotoraja voplotilas pri ego zhizni". - Guardian "To, kak Flenagan izobrazil svoego tikhogo, khrabrogo ottsa i ljubjaschuju, stojkuju mat - po-nastojaschemu velikolepno. On masterski peredal osobennosti selskoj zhizni v Tasmanii". - Daily Telegraph

Den 6 augusti 1945 faller atombomben över Hiroshima. Minst 60 000 människor mister livet, förmodligen långt fler. Men för Richard Flanagans far, som är krigsfånge i ett arbetsläger i Japan, betyder bomben överlevnad. I Fråga 7 försöker Richard Flanagan formulera ett svar på den moraliska paradox som historien väcker. Utan Hiroshima hade han aldrig funnits, men bakom varje fråga väntar en ny: utan en roman av H.G. Wells från 1914 hade bomben kanske inte uppfunnits – fysikern Leó Szilárd fick idén efter att ha läst H.G. Wells roman. Flanagans sökande utvecklas till ett slags litterär kärnreaktion, som försöker bringa reda i den omöjliga ekvation som är livet. Fråga 7 är en oförglömlig och ojämförlig historia – om liv och öde, kolonialism och arv – från en av vår tids mest betydande internationella författare.

NATSIONALNYJ BESTSELLER. KNIGA LAUREATA BUKEROVSKOJ PREMII. Vydajuschijsja roman o ljubvi i vojne, v kotorom proslezhivaetsja zhizn odnogo cheloveka so vremen Vtoroj mirovoj vojny do nashikh dnej. V 2025 godu vyshla dolgozhdannaja ekranizatsija Dzhastina Kurzelja s Dzhejkobom Elordi v glavnykh roljakh!

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín‘Wholly original. I absolutely loved it’ David Nicholls‘A brilliant, brilliant book’ James RebanksBy 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, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die…‘The strangest and most beautiful memoir I’ve ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton‘Flanagan’s finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence’ Guardian‘Flanagan’s portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite…masterful’ Daily Telegraph‘Intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.*WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*'An unforgettable story of men at war' The TimesThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX F MINA ETRANGER - LONGLISTED FOR PRIX M DICIS - An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times "Spectacular. . . A book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers." --Colm T ib n, author of Long Island Sometimes I wonder why we keep returning to beginnings--why we seek the single thread we might pull to unravel the tapestry we call our life... By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer 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.

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There’s so much . . . in Flanagan’s beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir . . . That it is a masterpiece is without question' ObserverThis is a book about the choices we make 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, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.‘I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it’ Sarah Perry‘Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’ Laura Cumming'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Tóibín'Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan’s greatest yet' Guardian‘Fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down’ Mark HaddonRichard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014

'Striking...brilliantly done' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, 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 novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots.'One of our greatest living novelists' Washington Post

From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes 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, yet 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 an eerily beautiful story of grief and possibility, of loss and love and orange-bellied parrots. Hailed on publication in Australia as Richard Flanagan's greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope.

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 novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.

Chto by vy sdelali, esli by odnazhdy prosnulis i obnaruzhili, chto stali samym razyskivaemym chelovekom v strane? Dzhina Devis zhila obychnoj zhiznju, khodila na rabotu, mechtala o sobstvennom dome. No vse eto bylo do vstrechi s Tarikom. Zagadochnyj neznakomets, noch, provedennaja vmeste, probuzhdenie - i vot ona uzhe posobnitsa terrorista. V odno mgnovenie Dzhina terjaet i druzej, i blizkikh.Odnako shans vyputatsja iz stol slozhnoj situatsii u nee vse esche est. Vot tolko kak im vospolzovatsja, esli okruzhajuschie uzhe vynesli ej smertnyj prigovor?

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemenâ??s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney.