A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding: longlisted for the International Booker Prize
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By Amanda Svensson, and and, Nichola Smalley
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989, triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later, the siblings are scattered around the world, barely speaking. Sebastian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation and falling in love. Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult. And the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, practising being a stepmother. Then something happens that forces them to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them, a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives …
‘Hilarious’ CLAIRE LOMBARDO
‘Playfully experimental’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Magnificent’ THE TELEGRAPH
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A fiendishly clever and very well written novel about family, friends, work, life and the interconnectedness of everything. It's funny and sad and playful and strange and you'd better keep your wits about you. A hugely enjoyable book. Highly recommended.
