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Sinopsis
‘A dazzling, exhilarating adventure joining 18th-century printer Nicholas Flood and his motley band on a quest for the infinite book… A joy for anyone who loves stories and a must for everyone who loves books.’ Big Issue
The year is 1717. Stung by the mysterious death of his only son, Count Ostrov renounces army life and retires to his remote island retreat. There, in mourning, he loses himself in his love of puzzles, turning the very fabric of his spectacular Slav castle into a giant, mechanical conundrum of revolving doors, moving floors and unstable staircases.
The Count brings to this impossible castle the legendary English printer Nicholas Flood, and charges him with the task of producing a book without beginning or end. But no sooner has Flood set about his quest than he meets the Count's beautiful, brilliant and yet somehow damaged daughter, Irena. In the shadows cast by the wheels and cogs of the clockwork castle, Flood finds himself distracted from the task in hand, and instead begins work on another book entirely, a secret gift for a secret lover – a tiny octavo volume with one word, Desire, gold-tooled on its spine…
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thomas wharton is the author of one previous novel, Icefields (1994), of which the Telegraph said: ‘Crosses Ondaatje’s The English Patient with Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow… ironic, brilliant and unforgettable.’
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"A beautifully written, old-fashioned read: a cross between 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Lord of the Rings'"
'Irish Independent'
'That night, as the striking of the great clock reverberated through the draughty halls of the castle, Flood, in shirt and breeches, leaped barefoot, like a pirate boarding a galley, from his moving bed to Irena's. He found her sitting at the head with her arms round her knees, eyes glittering…'
In a spectacular gothic castle of mechanical revolving doors, moving floors and unstable bookcases broods Count Ostrov, obsessive collector of puzzles and stories. He charges Nicholas Flood, the legendary English Printer, with the task of creating an infinite book; a story with no beginning and no end. But when Nicholas meets the Count's beautiful daughter Irena, a forbidden romance begins – and soon ends, as Nicholas is swiftly imprisoned in the Castle's dungeon. Once free, he embarks on a perilous journey through Venice, Alexandria, China and London, on a quest for knowledge, and into the path of greater danger…
"Wharton's gothic advenuture is gloriously inventive"
'ELLE'
"Poetic, beguiling…a quest for the Perfect Book that this wonder-tale records, and likewise exemplifies"
'Guardian'
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- EditorialFlamingo
- Año de publicación2003
- ISBN 10 0007128665
- ISBN 13 9780007128662
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas384
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