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The Mirror Thief

by (Melville House)

(239 reviews)

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A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A Publishers Weekly BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written... the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."

Set in three different eras, and in three different locations -- all, coincidentally, named Venice -- this "startling, beautiful gem of a book" (NPR) calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.

The core story is set in sixteenth-century Venice, where, on the island of Murano, the famed makers of Venetian glass wereperfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination -- was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing? -- the Venetian mirrors were state-of-the-art technology, subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. Thus, for the skilled craftsmen that made them, any attempt to leave the island -- to steal the technology -- was a crime punishable by death. One man, however -- a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose -- has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten...
Meanwhile, in two other Venices -- Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today -- two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret...
All three stories weave together into a spell-binding tour de force that is impossible to put down -- an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice... and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

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  • Print Length: 584 Pages
  • File Size: 2,399 KB

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