Product description
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024
From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize
"Extraordinary" — Sarah Perry
"Masterpiece" — Colm Tóibín
"Wholly original. I absolutely loved it" — David Nicholls
"A brilliant, brilliant book" — James Rebanks
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die…
"The strangest and most beautiful memoir I've ever read. Magnificent" — Tim Winton
"Flanagan's finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence" — Guardian
"Flanagan's portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tasmania is masterful" — Daily Telegraph
"A beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir… That it is a masterpiece is without question" — Observer
"Sometimes a book is an experience felt almost in the body… A celebration of all life, it is also a reckoning with the 20th century... It is intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound" — Anna Funder
Specifications
| Product ID / ISBN / EAN | 9781529935479 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Condition | New |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 1 May 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 288 |
| Width | 13.0 cm |
| Height | 19.7 cm |
| Depth | 1.9 cm |