# The Borrower

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- Book: [The Borrower](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-makkai/the-borrower) ([The Borrower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-makkai/the-borrower.md))
- Authors: [Rebecca Makkai](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-makkai)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-095-7
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2012-05-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers " Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer...