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 … But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. 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, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world’s most wondrous inventions: the mirror. Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its serendipitous mix of entertainment and literary mastery. The Mirror Thief is a dazzling combination of a genre-hopping adventure, a fast-paced mystery, and literary verve.
A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARĪ Publishers Weekly BEST BOOK OF THE YEARĪ globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining literary tour de force in the tradition of Cloud Atlas.
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