The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272

John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272 pages

she hires a new assistant

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pit the locals against one another

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272Why 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