AWW21 The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan

One of Australia’s greatest writers and seer of our times, Booker
Prize-winner Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
describes the end of a family and the end of the world.
Documenting the slow death of a matriarch in a Hobart hospital,
and the tumult it causes amongst her children, this achingly sad
but still hopeful novel deploys magical realism, black humour and
Richard’s masterfully poetic prose to explore the way humanity
loves, neglects and destroys itself and the beautiful world it
inhabits.


Chaired by Chris Flynn