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Nine years after her award-winning novel, Madeleine Thien returns with her latest novel, The Book of Records, an exciting and engaging story of family and history. The novel, which was one of ten titles on Barack Obama’s 2025 summer reading list, follows a girl and her ailing father as they seek refuge at a place called “the Sea”, a mysterious building that transcends time and place. From the other residents she learns the role of fate and the way ideas have shaped the world throughout history. Join the author for a thought-provoking conversation on memory, migration, and family.

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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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