The Book of Records

by Madeleine Thien

Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called The Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: 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. Under the tutelage of these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324078650
• ISBN13: 9781324078654
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages