More extracts See all. Novel of the week: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan In Flanagan’s eighth novel a woman lies dying in a hospital as bushfires rage in Australia. It is 2019 and Richard Flanagan is angry. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard Flanagan. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. 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Richard Flanagan, who steadfastly writes from a private world of myth, story, and deep erudition and emotion about nature and literature, is an instinctive allegorist. The poetic revolution that brought common people to literature’s highest peaks. An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Unit price / per . From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit–an elegy to our disappearing world. ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan Fiction – hardcover; Knopf Australia; 302 pages; 2020. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. Add to cart Adding product to your cart. mghty.pe/3bpUqn7. 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