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The Wisdom of Bones (Paperback)
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The Wisdom of Bones (Paperback)
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Loot Price R117
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'To find a creature part eel, part African lion, who steps the
tightrope, plays the viola, frightens the ladies and sings like a
nightingale. This is my task. I must conjure, procure and invent,
as a novelty is only novel once and no success succeeds as surely
as failure fails. ' London 1879 - In a gloomy room on Islington's
backstreets showman Percy Unusual George dreams of the miracle that
will change his fortunes and that of his troupe of performing
Remarkables. This waking dream will lead him to an infamous French
dwarf, an exiled Polish king, and a superstar of the
Enlightenment... and alter the course of his life forever. France
1746-1764 - At the court of Luneville, in the Alsace region of
Lorraine, exiled Polish King Stanislas hosts grand parties for the
French nobility and luminaries of the Enlightenment. While Voltaire
dotes on his lover, Emilie du Chatelet, the Polish king presents
his horrified queen with a gift of an infant dwarf from the Vosges
Mountains. King Stanislas names the child Bebe, and watches
indulgently as his protege becomes the most notorious and
celebrated dwarf in France, until an unexpected guest arrives and
unforeseen tragedy follows. Two ambitious men. One hundred years
apart. Kitty Aldridge entwines their stories to powerful effect in
this astonishingly imaginative and daring novel. The Wisdom of
Bones is a high-wire performance: a hypnotic tale of desire and
ambition, a quest for celebrity, and the human ache to be loved and
remembered. 'Time runs backwards and I see myself anew. Not a man
but a child. Not English but French. Not here but there. And I am
stranger than a sphinx.'
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