The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

De: Richard Flanagan

Narrado por: Essie Davis

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window 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, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.

Read by acclaimed Australian actress Essie Davis.©2020 Richard Flanagan (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia

A Most Remarkable Experience

I knew I would be enthralled by this latest of Richard Flanagan's books. I think it is a treasure in the lexicon of great Australian literature. The story has a deep poignancy, insight and has the unique style and completeness that marks it as another Flanagan master work. It is a story in and for Australia, however it questions some of the issues that each person on this planet would be well advised to consider, issues that confront our very humanity.
What I did not expect was the remarkable skill of Essie Davis, the narrator. The sensitivity and clarity that she brings to the already exquisite prose makes is an extra gift to the listener.
I suggest to prospective purchasers - listen to this book slowly and fully. Contemplate what you are receiving from what you hear. Be grateful that you have heard it.

Appalling!

She just wouldn't die!!!!!
Intruiging disappearances, but what a diatribe!
Bad audio.
Monotones, moroseness and unrelenting vocals makes it hard to listen to.