{"product_id":"seven-9780571338153","title":"Seven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimely and timeless, a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Rachel Cusk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho decides the rules of the games we play?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find the head of the Society of Lost Things, Theodoros Apostolakis. Fortunately Apostolakis isn't lost but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful ancient 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, \u003cem\u003eSeven\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Kavenna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571338153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/22\/2026 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoanna Kavenna is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction including \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInglorious\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Birth of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Reality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZed\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLRB\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2008 she won the Women's Prize for New Writing, and in 2013 she was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joanna Kavenna \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48685101383837,"sku":"9780571338153","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_c4fc0abb-7000-46b8-94bc-b49e815c1f76.jpg?v=1784714708","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/seven-9780571338153","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}