Book of Records tattooed Cesar

tattooed Cesar

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Book of Records tattooed CesarLina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China. Memory, political revolution,