Seven
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Seven
Timely and timeless - a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.
Timely and timeless - a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.
'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.' Spectator
Who 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571338153
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Joanna Kavenna's novels include Inglorious, The Birth of Love, A Field Guide to Reality and Zed. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Esquire and Zoetrope, among other publications. She was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.
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