Book of Records

Madeleine Thien is the author of four books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Review of Books. She lives in Montreal.

"Madeleine Thien’s time-warping historical novel The Book of Records collapses centuries and geographies in an ambitious family saga.... In an aching, dreamlike narrative that overlaps distant centuries and geographies to chart cycles of authoritarianism and loss…This staggering novel blurs the line between factand fiction to underscore the importance of storytelling itself, as a practice of endurance, and resistance.... Try to read without weeping profusely."