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A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

Winner of the Warwick Prize

Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exist...