A Father and Daughter Live in a Space Outside of Time inThe Book of Records(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Andrew Querner; W. W. Norton & Company

A new novel is on its way from Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien.

InThe Book of Records, coming May 20, 2025 from W. W. Norton & Company, a young girl named Lina has to care for her father in a sprawling apartment complex called The Sea. It’s a place where migrants continually arrive that seems to deal with time and space in its own way, and Lina and her dad have arrived there with only as many belongings as they could carry.

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Lina grows up listening to their stories, but it isn’t until she finally learns how she and her father came to be at The Sea that she learns the role betrayal has played in her own journey.

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The Book of Records, which the publisher calls “an adventurous, voyaging novel in which time occupies space uniquely,” raises questions of the role of fate, how the political atmosphere at a particular moment can influence a person’s future and the influence of art and intellectual exploration in our lives.

“This is the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most remarkable, exciting, engrossing and enriching,” says the publisher says.

Thien is also the author ofDo Not Say We Have Nothinga finalist for the Booker Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize and winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award.

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The Book of Recordscomes out May 20, 2025 and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.

source: people.com