The Book of Records

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Lina and her father arrive at the Sea, a mysterious building made of time that serves as a waystation for refugees. There she befriends Baruch Spinoza, Hannah Arendt and the Tang poet Du Fu, whose conversations help her reckon with history, guilt and her ailing father's past.

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• Barack Obama: “A beautiful fable about migration, memory, and the struggle to recognize our common humanity.”