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Author
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this gripping debut mystery set in contemporary London with roots in 17th century Holland and the mysterious tulip trade, the attempted murder of Dutchman Frank Schoeller leads to his nephew's investigation of the case. His only clues: a 17th-century book about tulips and the most coveted and expensive bulb of them all, the Semper Augustus.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story--his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War--from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier, survivor of World War I--lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving...
3) The King
Author
Publisher
New Directions Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A hypnotic page-turner about the grinding gears of historical change and ruthless palace intrigue in Persia, c. 1848. The King, young Shah Naser, takes to the throne of Persia at a turning point of history: he inherits an enchanted medieval world of harems, eunuchs, and treasures as well as a palace of secret doors, sudden deaths, and hidden agendas. Within the court is danger enough: outside all manner of change threatens--industrialization, colonization....
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