The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan

Written by Richard Flanagan
Read by Essie Davis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 listener 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.

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 05-25-21