The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

SKU: 9781784744175
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

SKU: 9781784744175
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Literary, haunting, emotionally raw
⚡ Pace
Slow-burning, reflective
🌊 Vibes
Family tension, environmental unease, grief, emotional fragmentation
✨ Themes
Mortality, climate anxiety, family responsibility, loss, disconnection
🧠 Emotional Journey
Thought-provoking, melancholic, deeply emotional
📖 Hook
As their mother slowly dies, three siblings confront fractured relationships, personal guilt, and a world that feels increasingly broken around them
💫 Perfect For
Readers who enjoy introspective literary fiction exploring family dynamics and modern anxieties

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, 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.


Book details

Reading age
18+
Pages
285
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Published
15 January 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781784744175

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