Question 7 av Richard Flanagan

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<p>''A work of non-fiction . . . but it has <b>all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . </b><i>Question 7 </i><b>sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>''There¿s so much . . . in Flanagan¿s <b>beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir</b> . . . <b>That it is a masterpiece is without question</b>'' <b><i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>This is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .</b><br><br>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.<br><br>Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.<br><br>Through a hypnotic melding of drea