{"product_id":"question-7-9781529935479","title":"Question 7","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . \u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir . . . That it is a masterpiece is without question'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it' Sarah Perry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' Laura Cumming\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me'' Colm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down' Mark Haddon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020045812055,"sku":"9781529935479","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529935479.jpg?v=1750782186","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/question-7-9781529935479","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}