{"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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571338153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Joanna Kavenna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537462128821,"sku":"9780571338153","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3ef2b143-1a28-4ffa-a6f9-2b961cd15221.jpg?v=1779169661","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seven-9780571338153","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}