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Γιώργος Μπλάνας Γιώργος Μπλάνας i(23270555 works by) (a.k.a. George Blanas)
Born: Established: 1959 Athens,
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Greece,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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2 9 y separately published work icon The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard Flanagan , ( trans. Γιώργος Μπλάνας with title Η ζωντανή θάλασσα που ονειρευόταν ξύπνια ) Greece : Ψυχογιός , 2021 19615971 2020 single work novel

'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 novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.

'An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving—and astonishing—best.' (Publication summary)
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