The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions,...
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From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointmentsAnna'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.
Hailed on publication in Australia as Richard Flanagan's greatest novel yet, 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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It s impossible to say how the vanishing began or if it was already ended, thought Anna. Or, for that matter, how to begin. Whether it s about me or her or him, whether it s she or we or you, whether it s now or then or sometime soon. And not having even the right voice tense pronoun makes it so much harder. Perhaps even impossible. Were words? as Francie pointed.
Well: were they what?
As if they too were already then falling apart, so much ash and soot soon to fall, so much smoke to suck down. As if all that can be said is we say you or if that then. Them us were we you?
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Maybe Francie is happier not being able t-t-to say anything, Tommy stutters. I mean, is translating experience into words an achievement at all? Or is it just the cause of all our unhappiness? Is it our tragedy and our ongoing conceit? The world gets carried away with words, phrases, and elaborate paragraphs. One word leads to another and soon enough you have affairs, wars, genocide and the Anthropocene. Silence, according to Tommy when in his cups, is the only place where truth can be found.
And what do we have instead? Noise babble everywhere.
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For a long time he had been aware of a growing scream that was within him and outside him, continued Anna s brother. He tried to contain that scream, it made him stutter, but it kept insisting. The world grew daily hotter and smokier and nightly noisier: more construction noise more insects disappearing, more road noise more fish stocks collapsing, more news noise more frogs and snakes dying out, more brexitrump climatecoal more and more, more and more fucking tourists everywhere, even here in Tasmania even here at the end of the world, well they were queueing at the top of Everest what could you expect? more jackhammers more reversing trucks and falling and rising cherry pickers b-b-beeping, more tourist coaches clogging small streets more rolling suitcases click-clack-clacking in the street more
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Winnefuckingbagos more Airbnfuckingbs more locals sleeping in tents all around the city until even his dreams filled with a nightmare of noise movement growth that seemed to benefit no one and only grew things that left people unsettled unhappy that made people poorer; an ever greater panic expressed as movement, a fear of stillness, tourism that was meant to save the island had become the very opposite, tourists even shat in the front yards of locals what the fuck was that saying? They re pulling poor fucking penguins out of their holes holding them up for selfies to Instagram, who were these people? They came in budget flights they came in cruise liners every year larger, louder and more childish death stars betopped with ever bigger water slides bungee jumps and video screens pushing out just beneath their haze of bunker fuel smoke forced hap-hap-happy, says Tommy. Far-far-fucking penitentiaries f-f-faking fun floating over Hobart looks like Noddytown does everyone want to be seven?
Yes no maybe.
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Just over the mountain behind the city the fires are burning ever closer, every day news reports social media feeds pictures of evacuation centres crowded with hundreds of people it was like a war they were like refugees it was a war and they were losing who was winning who? On his phone the government was calling for more coalmines new coal-fired power stations they d jail you for twenty-one years if you protested the same as murder now in Australia for calling bullshit on fire they couldn t get enough fire and smoke but he was scared, in truth, he was t-t-terrified, he had had enough. Tasmania was where you came to get away from all that shit but now it was even here, ancient forests vanishing, beaches covered in crap, wild birds vomiting supermarket shopping bags, a world disappearing some terrible violence returning for a final reckoning.
Yes no maybe.
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Just over the mountain behind the city the fires are burning ever closer, every day news reports social media feeds pictures of evacuation centres crowded with hundreds of people it was like a war they were like refugees it was a war and they were losing who was winning who? On his phone the government was calling for more coalmines new coal-fired power stations they d jail you for twenty-one years if you protested the same as murder now in Australia for calling bullshit on fire they couldn t get enough fire and smoke but he was scared, in truth, he was t-t-terrified, he had had enough. Tasmania was where you came to get away from all that shit but now it was even here, ancient forests vanishing, beaches covered in crap, wild birds vomiting supermarket shopping bags, a world disappearing some terrible violence returning for a final reckoning.
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Autoren-Porträt von Richard Flanagan
RICHARD FLANAGAN's seven novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Gould's Book of Fish and the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Flanagan
- 2021, 288 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 0593319605
- ISBN-13: 9780593319604
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Flanagan is one of our greatest living novelists, able to tackle material so wrenching that you can t stop reading. Bethanne Patrick, Washington PostThe Living Sea of Waking Dreams, like Jonathan Franzen s best novels, quietly traces a societal rift around wealth and what amounts to a good life . . . In the end, like Flanagan s best work the novel grounds itself in humane ideals. Love. Hope. Dignity. New York Times Book Review
What an astonishing book this is . . . Masterful . . . This novel is a revelation and triumph, from a writer demonstrating, yet again, the depths of his talent, while revelling in a new, unfamiliar register. It is at once timely and timeless, full of despair but leavened by hope, angry and funny and sad and a bit magical. Sydney Morning Herald
Superb . . . It is a remarkable book and it serves Literature in the most insistent, dedicated, and demanding manner. Any novelist writing at this moment should write in such a way that no reader can remain indifferent or feign ignorance of our role in the subjugation of the world . . . Flanagan s novel is brave enough to say It s not about us any more. It really isn t. Joy Williams, Book Post
One of the most profound, moving novels I ve ever read, a true masterpiece. Cherilyn Parsons, LitHub
Gorgeous, mesmerizing . . . Reading Flanagan is like watching Federer at Wimbledon: he can do pretty much anything on the page and make it look easy, elegant . . . Flanagan never misses a beat. His language is drum-tight, his ear for prose rhythms impeccable . . . Flanagan has given us a novel that s inventive and lyrical, a dark meditation on where we are and where we may be headed. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is his finest work yet.
Hamilton Cain, Harvard Review
Flanagan writes movingly . . . His poetic prose and rigorously argued points make this
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novel hard to dismiss. At its strongest, the book poses an important question: What constitutes dignity? . . . How do our actions and motivations compromise the health of those around us? It s a question a year of unrelenting darkness has made all the more critical.
Michael Magras, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Provocative and disturbing . . . Vivid . . . A kaleidoscopic novel.
David L. Ulin, 4Columns
Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent, and important book about our broken and confusing age.
James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd s Life
Peculiar and bewitching . . . The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a powerful rumination on frailty and mortality. Sarah Rachel Egelman, Book Reporter
Writers the world over are grappling with a version of this question: in the face of so much devastation, so much terror, what can fiction possibly achieve? The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is Flanagan s emphatic, wrenching answer. Guardian Australia
Like Richard Powers s The Overstory, this is a timely, unforgettable work of climate fiction. Booklist (starred)
A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and turns, the stress points and the double-binds of familial love. Daily Telegraph
His prose has a pyrotechnic brilliance. Mail on Sunday
The brilliance of Flanagan s story and the deep power of this novel is in our witnessing of the end of the world . . . In The Living Sea of Waking Dreams it is a matriarch rather than a patriarch slowly, messily and unevenly passing out of the world [but] in this respect Flanagan s novel resembles Jonathan Franzen s The Corrections or HBO s Succession. The Conversation
Utterly dazzling. SFX
It concludes, astonishingly for a story about our flaws, our blindnesses the individual and collective fiasco that has brought us to this point with a message of hope. The Weekend Australian
Unforgettable . . . Flanagan shines in his fierce, surrealistic look at a family s dissolution in a recognizable if dystopian Australia that s ravaged by wildfires. Publishers Weekly (starred)
Like Richard Powers s The Overstory, this is a timely, unforgettable work of climate fiction. Booklist (starred)
Michael Magras, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Provocative and disturbing . . . Vivid . . . A kaleidoscopic novel.
David L. Ulin, 4Columns
Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent, and important book about our broken and confusing age.
James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd s Life
Peculiar and bewitching . . . The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a powerful rumination on frailty and mortality. Sarah Rachel Egelman, Book Reporter
Writers the world over are grappling with a version of this question: in the face of so much devastation, so much terror, what can fiction possibly achieve? The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is Flanagan s emphatic, wrenching answer. Guardian Australia
Like Richard Powers s The Overstory, this is a timely, unforgettable work of climate fiction. Booklist (starred)
A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and turns, the stress points and the double-binds of familial love. Daily Telegraph
His prose has a pyrotechnic brilliance. Mail on Sunday
The brilliance of Flanagan s story and the deep power of this novel is in our witnessing of the end of the world . . . In The Living Sea of Waking Dreams it is a matriarch rather than a patriarch slowly, messily and unevenly passing out of the world [but] in this respect Flanagan s novel resembles Jonathan Franzen s The Corrections or HBO s Succession. The Conversation
Utterly dazzling. SFX
It concludes, astonishingly for a story about our flaws, our blindnesses the individual and collective fiasco that has brought us to this point with a message of hope. The Weekend Australian
Unforgettable . . . Flanagan shines in his fierce, surrealistic look at a family s dissolution in a recognizable if dystopian Australia that s ravaged by wildfires. Publishers Weekly (starred)
Like Richard Powers s The Overstory, this is a timely, unforgettable work of climate fiction. Booklist (starred)
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