The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature Keep this book to benchmark

Keep this book to benchmark the country's progress on that pathway

The scent of just-crushed rosemary and trailing bay leaves lingers softly on the skin

Ghosts passed through the cottage sitting on the peak of Townsend Hill like passengers in a train station

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

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature Keep this book to benchmarkWhy 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