Seven

Joanna Kavenna

£16.99


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(s): Kavenna, Joanna
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 15/01/2026
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Published By: Faber & Faber
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction|Narrative theme: Interior life|Narrative theme: Politics|Narrative theme: Politics
Dimensions: 216 x 135
Weight:
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571338153

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