by Richard Flanagan, Tasmanian
author of The Long Road to the Deep North.
Once I had the idea of writing the book [Question 7]
as a chain reaction that begins with Rebecca West kissing HG Wells and leads to 100,000 people dying in Hiroshima,
my father living and me being born – once I understood
that without that kiss, there would be no bomb and no me –
then disparate things that had haunted me for so long fell into place.
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