![]() ![]() On finishing the novel, the desire go back to the beginning is overwhelming: to reread the crazy-paving introduction made up of interior dialogue and characters‘ observations, mixed in with the action at the matriarch Francie’s hospital bedside. The opening chapter, fragmented into 22 sections, lays out Flanagan’s bargain with the reader: that, if we persevere, all these facets will form part of a satisfying whole. ![]() Ostensibly, The Living Sea is told from the viewpoint of a successful architect, Anna, and is anchored in present-day Australia, but both the point of view and timeframe are malleable. But the concern with eco disaster and the use of magic realism in The Living Sea of Waking Dreams marks it out as a departure from the emotional power and straightforward parallel narratives of the earlier work. RICHARD FLANAGAN’s Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North is one of this century’s best novels. ![]()
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