Seven -- Joanna Kavenna, Hardcover
Timely and timeless, a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.
"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."--Rachel Cusk
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 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.
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.
Author: Joanna Kavenna
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 7/14/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85 lbs
Size: 8.6" H x 5.3" L x 1.1" W
ISBN: 9780571338153
