Summary
Richard Flanagan: The Seventh Question
Beginning in a hotel along the Inland Sea of Japan and ending on a river in Tasmania, The Seventh Question tells a story about love and the consequences of our choices.
Describing a time span that includes a love affair between H. Dz. Wells and Rebecca West, nuclear physics in the 1930s and the imprisonment of Flanagan's father near Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped, the story reaches its climax when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in the rapids of a wild river, not knowing if he will survive.
This remarkable memoir, in which dream, history, places and memory hypnotically merge, describes how our lives are often destroyed by other people's stories and the stories we invent about ourselves.
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