Description:
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.
Brief description: Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including The Book of Records, named one of Obama's Best Books of 2025 and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.
Review Quotes: In the tradition of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, Thien's new work almost seamlessly integrates literary, historical and science fiction.--Bethanne Patrick "Los Angeles Times"