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Flanagan is perhaps best known for his 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian prisoners of war forced to build the Thai-Burma railway track during World War II. That novel was a work of unflinching, sometimes harrowing, realism, and a deeply researched masterclass in historical fiction. In Flanagan’s other books, however, he’s often delved into magic realism or blurred notions of fact and fiction, especially in the much-loved 2001 novel, Gould’s Book of Fish, and the 2017 fictional mock-memoir, First Person. Flanagan’s new novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, again embraces strange and surreal elements. It’s about vanishing species and vanishing selves; about a woman who sees herself, and others, disappearing – in part and in full. Join this shape-shifting storyteller as he discusses his highly anticipated new work.

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