Question 7 is the latest title from Tasmania based Australian author Richard Flanagan. Although Question 7 is a memoir, it sounds more like an action/thriller title:
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 genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
Flanagan won numerous literary awards for his work, including the Booker Prize, and the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Prize.