{"product_id":"the-book-of-records-paperback","title":"The Book of Records (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLina 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExquisitely written with extraordinary subtlety of thought, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Records\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eleaps across centuries as if eras were separated by only a door. This is Madeleine Thien at her most exciting, sublime and engaging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky's Books and Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47205838618755,"sku":"9781039009585","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3795\/6483\/files\/9781039009585.jpg?v=1779754842","url":"https:\/\/luckys.ca\/products\/the-book-of-records-paperback","provider":"Lucky's Books and Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}