
Seven : 'Endlessly inventive' The Times
by Joanna Kavenna
Title:
Seven : 'Endlessly inventive' The Times
Author:
Joanna Kavenna
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
288 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571338153
EAN:
9780571338153
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
516
Dimensions (mm):
143 x 226 x 29
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
As heard on BBC R4s Start of the Week, 'hilarious, insightful and supremely intelligent writing''What a writer.' ALI SMITH'Endlessly inventive' THE TIMES'Thoroughly pleasurable' TELEGRAPH'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.' SPECTATORWho decides the rules of the games we play?In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isn't lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.












