The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Resumen del libro

'Striking...brilliantly done' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window 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, but 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 a strangely beautiful novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots. 'One of our greatest living novelists' Washington Post

Biografía del autor

p b Richard Flanagan /b (Tasmania, 1961) es un escritor y guionista australiano. Es autor de varias novelas que se han publicado en cuarenta y dos países con un enorme reconocimiento de la crítica. Entre ellas figuran i Muerte de un guía /i (1994); i El libro de los peces de William Gould /i (2001), ganadora del premio Commonwealth; i El camino estrecho al norte profundo /i (2013), ganadora del premio Booker, y i El mar vivo de los sueños despiertos /i (2020). i La pregunta 7 /i (2023; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), considerada su mejor obra hasta la fecha, ha obtenido el premio Baillie Gifford, uno de los más prestigiosos premios de no ficción del mundo anglosajón, y ha sido finalista del premio Femina Étranger y seleccionado para el premio Médicis.<br>