The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature This is the essential book

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

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Invisible Man by H

Elaine Risley

unlikely friendship

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature This is the essential bookWhy 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