EAN: 9781324078654

THIEN MADELEINE THE BOOK OF RECORDS

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 Lina's 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 family's tragic past. 
As Lina confronts her father's 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 home-in the physical world  in cyberspace  in history  and in the
imagination-in the wake of catastrophe.

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