{"title":"Madeleine Thien","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadeleine Thien's works explore the intricate intersections of memory, history, and identity, often weaving personal and political narratives that resonate deeply. Her novels invite readers into richly textured worlds where art and culture become vital threads in the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen eye for emotional nuance and historical depth, Thien's storytelling captures the delicate complexities of relationships against broader social backdrops. 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In 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. 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Records\u003c\/em\u003e explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Intricate and dazzlingly expansive... This is a novel with as much to offer the heart as the mind... 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