{"product_id":"9781039009561","title":"The Book of Records","description":"\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named a Most Anticipated Release by\u003ci\u003e Toronto Star • Literary Hub • Esquire • The Washington Post • \u003c\/i\u003e49th Shelf • She Does the City • An “incandescent” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e “evocative and buoyant ” (\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e) page turner from the beloved author of\u003ci\u003e Do Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e—this “rich and beautiful” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) father–daughter saga leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door • “Reading Thien is to admire how she brush-strokes language to create beauty. . . . full of unexpected moments of beauty and pleasure.” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLina 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely written with extraordinary subtlety of thought, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Records \u003c\/i\u003eleaps across centuries as if eras were separated by only a door. This is Madeleine Thien at her most exciting, sublime and engaging.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46932926759168,"sku":"9781039009561","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0084\/8081\/7207\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1bdadd32-dfb6-45a3-b977-2e0f948f913d.jpg?v=1755719363","url":"https:\/\/www.secretplanet.ca\/products\/9781039009561","provider":"Secret Planet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}