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'Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet' Guardian 'A masterpiece' Mark Haddon This is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . . By 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 when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die. Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves. 'I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it' Sarah Perry 'Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' Laura Cumming 'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Tóibín

Der mittellose Schriftsteller Kif Kehlmann erhält den Auftrag, die Memoiren des Kriminellen Siegfried Heidl zu schreiben. Während er unter Druck steht, erkennt er, dass Heidl kein Interesse an dem Buch hat und beginnt zu erfinden. Mit dem näher rückenden Abgabetermin verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen ihrer Identität und Realität.

Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters? But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan's expose of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing. From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read. Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead 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 Flanagan's greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains to us when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope

Six weeks to write for your life... In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks. Kehlmann accepts but begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him-his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl-and who is Kif Kehlmann? By turns compelling, comic and chilling, First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

In einem Fußballstadion werden drei Bomben entdeckt, und Gina Davis verbringt eine Nacht mit einem Fremden. Als sie aufwacht, ist der Mann verschwunden und sie eine mutmaßliche Terroristin. Noch bevor sie sich stellen und alles aufklären kann, entgleitet ihr die Kontrolle über ihr gesamtes Leben. Wer soll ihr noch glauben? Sogar sie selbst kann sich der endlosen Schleife der Fernsehbilder kaum entziehen: Tariq und sie auf den Bildern der Überwachungskameras, Schnitt. Die Bomben im Stadion, Schnitt. Anschläge in Städten auf der ganzen Welt. Gina wird klar, dass diese gigantische politische und mediale Maschinerie nicht mehr zu stoppen ist. In nur drei Tagen ist aus ihr ein vollkommen anderer Mensch geworden: Sie ist der Feind. Sie ist die Angst vor der Bedrohung durch das Unbekannte, das unsere Welt dieser Tage in Schrecken versetzt.

The book explores the paradox of modern non-freedom, juxtaposing traditional images of oppression with contemporary consumerism. It critiques how the allure of technology and consumer goods, like iPads and iPhones, shapes perceptions of worth and happiness in the Western world. The narrative delves into the unsettling realities behind these products, including ethical concerns and the commodification of beauty, prompting readers to reconsider the true cost of their desires in a society increasingly defined by materialism.

V paměti čtenářů zůstává slavná kniha Most přes řeku Kwai z roku 1952, o pět let později úspěšně zfilmovaná. Po více než šedesáti letech se k tragickému dramatu stavby „železnice smrti“, při níž přišlo o život neuvěřitelných sto tisíc lidí, vrátil spisovatel Richard Flanagan. Centrem jeho vyprávění je utrpení australských válečných zajatců v čele s vojenským lékařem Dorrigo Evansem. Historický román je o to cennější, že čerpá z osobních vzpomínek autorova otce, veterána siamsko-barmské železnice, jenž zemřel roku 2013 a jemuž je román dedikován. Za své dílo získal spisovatel roku 2014 Bookerovu cenu.