THE BOOK OF RECORDS (Signed Pre-order)
Madeleine Thien
£20.00
Preorder for 8th May 2025 – Signed copies only available after 27th May.
Madeleine Thien will be talking about her latest novel at the Owl on Tuesday 27th May and tickets can be purchased here.
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SUMMARY
Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China, and through their stories, she comes to understand the role of fate in history and the way that ideas can shape the world, and to face up to the cost wrought on her family and others by her father’s betrayals.