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'Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet' Guardian 'A masterpiece' Mark Haddon This 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

Der mittellose Schriftsteller Kif Kehlmann erhält den Auftrag, die Memoiren des Kriminellen Siegfried Heidl zu schreiben. Während er unter Druck steht, erkennt er, dass Heidl kein Interesse an dem Buch hat und beginnt zu erfinden. Mit dem näher rückenden Abgabetermin verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen ihrer Identität und Realität.

Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters? But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan's expose of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing. From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read. Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.

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, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead 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 Flanagan's greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains to us when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope

Den jungen, mittellosen Schriftsteller Kif Kehlmann erreicht mitten in der Nacht ein Anruf. Er soll die Memoiren des berühmtesten Kriminellen Australiens schreiben, Siegfried Heidl. Heidl hat den Banken siebenhundert Millionen Dollar abgenommen und muss sich nun vor Gericht verantworten. Bis zum Tag der Urteilsverkündung will sein Verleger das Manuskript auf dem Tisch haben. Trotz des enormen Drucks willigt Kehlmann ein, muss aber erkennen, dass Heidl sich gar nicht für das Buch interessiert. Also beginnt er zu erfinden. Je näher aber der Abgabetermin rückt, desto mehr verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Heidl und ihm selbst, zwischen Erfindung und Erinnerung. Betreibt Heidl Sabotage, will er, dass Kehlmanns Leben selbst sich ändert, das erfundene und das wahre?

The book explores the paradox of modern non-freedom, juxtaposing traditional images of oppression with contemporary consumerism. It critiques how the allure of technology and consumer goods, like iPads and iPhones, shapes perceptions of worth and happiness in the Western world. The narrative delves into the unsettling realities behind these products, including ethical concerns and the commodification of beauty, prompting readers to reconsider the true cost of their desires in a society increasingly defined by materialism.

»Ein tiefgründiges und bewegendes Meisterwerk über einen verzweifelten jungen Mann in Zeiten des Krieges«, urteilt der Observer. Preisgekrönt entfachte Richard Flanagans Roman weltweit einhellige Begeisterung: Sein Held ist Dorrigo Evans, ein begabter Chirurg, dem eine glänzende Zukunft bevorsteht. Als der Zweite Weltkrieg auch Australien erreicht, meldet er sich zum Militär. Doch der Krieg macht keine Unterschiede, und während Dorrigo in einem japanischen Gefangenenlager mit seinen Männern gegen Hunger, Cholera und die Grausamkeit des Lagerleiters kämpft, quält ihn die Erinnerung an die Liebe zu der Frau seines Onkels. Bis er einen Brief erhält, der seinem Leben eine endgültige Wendung gibt. Richard Flanagans schmerzvoll poetischer Roman erzählt von den unterschiedlichen Formen der Liebe und des Todes, von Wahrheit, Krieg und der tiefen Erkenntnis eines existentiellen Verlusts.

Linking apparently unrelated events and tragedies from the 19th century, 'Wanting' transforms into a remarkable meditation on the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape our lives.