03433cam a2200469 4500 2354327565 ER5 20250616120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781324078661 1324078669 B0DK47D3T6 Amazon 8ad22fa8-25f0-4ca2-bb1b-7ca706e0c153 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11272303 OverDrive (Product ID) ER5 Thien, Madeleine. The Book of Records [Libby eBook] : A Novel. W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. speculative fiction. political fiction. books about grief. migrant crisis. genre-bending. literature. Libraries. migration. History. climate. family. Crisis. time. HTML:<p><strong>A Literary Hub, Esquire, and Washington Post Most Anticipated Book of 2025<br /> One of Time's and People's Best Books of May<br /> A Los Angeles Times and A. V. Club Top 10 Book to Read in May<br /> <br /> <br /> A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door.</strong></p> <p>Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: 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.</p> <p>Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Lina's illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every person is an irreplaceable, unique vessel of history. Through the guidance of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption when her ailing father begins to reveal his role in their family's tragic past.</p> <p>As Lina confronts her father's troubling admissions, she begins to reconceptualize the world around her, gaining a deeper understanding of how our individual futures are shaped by our political circumstances, and she relies on the collective joy of art and intellectual endeavors to carry her through difficulty. A novel that voyages between centuries, generations, and ideas, The Book of Records is an indelible testament to the migratory nature of humanity and our ceaseless search for a home—in the physical world, in cyberspace, in history, and in the imagination—in the wake of catastrophe.</p>. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-06-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8ad22fa8-25f0-4ca2-bb1b-7ca706e0c153&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8ad22fa8-25f0-4ca2-bb1b-7ca706e0c153&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)