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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel, is one of a slew of novels one expects to emerge from the shadow of the 2019–2020 bushfire season that darkened the skies of eastern Australia for weeks on end, scorching forests from Byron Bay to Kangaroo Island.
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the uncanny pink-disk sun of smoke-choked Sydney in November and December to the apocalyptic scenes at Mallacoota on New Year’s Eve.
- Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
- The Conversation
In Flanagan’s novel the collapse of the planet’s ecosystems happens in…