A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding

Name: A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding
Author: Amanda Svensson
ISBN: 9781922586544

Amanda Svensson

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#5356 of 8,085 books · #2432 in Fiction

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023).

A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensues. Over two decades later, Sebastian is recruited to join a mysterious organisation, the London Institute of Cognitive Science, where he meets Laura Kadinsky, a patient whose inability to see the world in three dimensions is not the only thing about her that intrigues him. Meanwhile, Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult, and the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, trying to escape from the colour blue. Then something happens that forces the triplets 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 …

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