{"product_id":"question-7","title":"Richard Flanagan: Question 7 [2025] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one kiss comes a chain reaction - a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Extraordinary' Sarah Perry\u003cbr\u003e'Masterpiece' Colm Toibin\u003cbr\u003e'Wholly original. I absolutely loved it' David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant, brilliant book' James Rebanks\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, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The strangest and most beautiful memoir I've ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Flanagan's finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Flanagan's portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas mania is masterful' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir... That it is a masterpiece is without question' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sometimes a book is an experience felt almost in the body... A celebration of all life, it is also a reckoning with the 20th century... It is intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flanagan, Richard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50765847593299,"sku":"9781529935479","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53707882398035,"sku":"XV81529935479","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/richard-flanagan-richard-flanagan-question-7-2025-paperback-9781529935479-1155472713.jpg?v=1778333078","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/question-7","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}