Madeleine Thien: The Book of Records, Gebunden
The Book of Records
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- Publisher:
- Granta Books, 05/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781803510729
- Item number:
- 12157392
- Volume:
- 368 Pages
- Weight:
- 582 g
- Format:
- 243 x 162 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 8.5.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of The Book of Records |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 15.36* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 20.94* |
Blurb
Why 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-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.
Profound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, The Book of Records explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.
Biography
Madeleine Thien wurde 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, geboren. Ihre Eltern stammen aus Malaysia und China und emigrierten in den 1960ern nach Kanada. Als Kind begann Thien mit Ballett, Steptanz und Akrobatik, studierte zunächst Tanz, wechselte dann 1994 über zu Literatur an der University of British Columbia. Ihr erstes Buch "Simple Recipes", eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, wurde mit vier kanadischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet und für einen regionalen Commonwealth Writers' Prize für das erste Buch nominiert. Madeleine Thien lebt mit ihrem Mann Willem in Quebec.
