Madeleine Thien plays with these concepts in her ambitious, elliptical novel “The Book of Records,” which is Escherian in spirit, flattening our understanding of time and human connection in all the ...

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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Madeleine Thien about her new novel, The Book of Records begins when a seven year old ...