Richard Flanagan: Question 7
Event start date
Jun
05
2024
Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan presents his magnificent memoir, a tale which weaves through history and continents, in this London-exclusive event.
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.
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 when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.
Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents, and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science and memory it shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
- Event Organiser/Organisation
- Southbank Centre
- Start Date/Time
- Wednesday 05 June 2024 at 7:30pm
- End Date/Time
- Wednesday 05 June 2024 at 9pm
- Venue Address
- Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
- Event Website
- https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/richard-flanagan-question-7?eventId=984853
- Booking Instructions
- https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/richard-flanagan-question-7?eventId=984853 This event is Speech-to-Text transcribed (STT). You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.