SevenJoanna KavennaMainLabel: Faber & FaberDescription: As heard on BBC R4s Start the Week 'hilarious insightful and supremely intelligent writing''What a writer.' ALI SMITH'Endlessly inventive' THE TIMES'Thoroughly pleasurable' DAILY 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.
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