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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Flanagan
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Surrealism
This book is for you if you're into...
- Surreal vanishings woven into family grief and hospital rooms
- Dreamlike escapes from reality through windows and visions
- Stories where loss and hope blur at the edge of the ordinary
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.
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.
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