Dimensions
128 x 197 x 33mm
The dazzling new novel from the author of 'The Ship Of Fools' follows Tommaso Grilli, dwarf and art forger, from his unhappy beginnings in Renaissance Florence, via a life of crime in Prague, to the minor German Dukedom of Felsengrunde. There, as curator and (more often than not) 'creator' of a fantastical Library of Arts, he makes himself indispensable to the impoverished duke - with whom his own fortunes will be murderously linked.
An adventure story, a thriller and a picaresque fable, 'Arts And Wonders' breathtakingly evokes the ferment of early modern Europe and reveals what it means to be truly human.
