{"product_id":"seven","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\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0571338151\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780571338153\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kavenna, Joanna\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jul 2026)","offer_id":46414354514117,"sku":"9780571338153","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780571338153.jpg?v=1781864875","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/seven","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}