Strong gusts of wind shake the trees visible through the window of Richard Flanagan's office. The Australian writer reports to the ARA from Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, where he was born in 1961, grew up, and still lives. Tasmania is the backdrop for his latest book, Question 7 (Periscopio / Asteroide; Catalan translation by Míriam Cano), a skillful blend of memoir, historical and literary essay, and travel book. Starting with a visit by the author to the Japanese labor camp where his father was imprisoned during World War II, Flanagan not only reconstructs his life but also recalls the literary origins of the atomic bomb—it was first imagined by the visionary H.G. Wells—and denounces the colonial past that ended island nature, leading to a present in which there is perhaps no turning back.