The Book of Records (eBook)

A Novel

Madeleine Thien (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
368 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-07866-1 (ISBN)

Infos

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the SummerA Literary Hub, Esquire, and Washington Post Most Anticipated Book of 2025One of Time's and People's Best Books of MayA Los Angeles Times and A. V. Club Top 10 Book to Read in May"e;A beautiful fable about migration, memory, and the struggle to recognize our common humanity."e; Barack ObamaA novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door.Lina and her father arrive 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.Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Linas illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every person is an irreplaceable, unique vessel of history. Through the guidance of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption when her ailing father begins to reveal his role in their familys tragic past.As Lina confronts her fathers troubling admissions, she begins to reconceptualize the world around her, gaining a deeper understanding of how our individual futures are shaped by our political circumstances, and she relies on the collective joy of art and intellectual endeavors to carry her through difficulty. A novel that voyages between centuries, generations, and ideas, The Book of Records is an indelible testament to the migratory nature of humanity and our ceaseless search for a homein the physical world, in cyberspace, in history, and in the imaginationin the wake of catastrophe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: books about grief • Climate • Crisis • Family • genre-bending • History • libraries • Literature • migrant crisis • Migration • political fiction • Speculative Fiction • Time
• ISBN-10: 1-324-07866-9 / 1324078669
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-07866-1 / 9781324078661