The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature Elaine Risley

Elaine Risley

unlikely friendship

she hires a new assistant

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

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature Elaine RisleyWhy 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