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The Book of Records: A Novel

By Madeleine Thien
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By Madeleine Thien
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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

A Time Must-Read Book of the Year

One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Summer



“A brilliant outlaw novel.” —Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times


A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door.

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mys...

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