The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literatureWhy 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

John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272 pages

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Ghosts passed through the cottage sitting on the peak of Townsend Hill like passengers in a train station

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she hires a new assistant

unlikely friendship

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The scent of just-crushed rosemary and trailing bay leaves lingers softly on the skin

pit the locals against one another

This is the essential book delving into Taiwan’s unique story

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