The Book of Records

The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.

About the author

Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, and won the Governor General's Award, among other honours. She is also the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and the novels Certainty (2006) and Dogs at the Perimeter (2012), which was shortlisted for Berlin's 2014 International Literature Award and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's 2015 LiBeraturpreis. Her books and stories have been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Montreal, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Madeleine Thien, Thien Madeleine
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781803510743
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-074-3
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction