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The Great Glass Sea
Josh Weil
Grove Atlantic
July 2014
On Sale: July 1, 2014
474 pages
ISBN: 0802122159
EAN: 9780802122155
Kindle: B00HWGM0GC
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Science Fiction Alternate History | Fantasy
From sensational storyteller, Josh Weil, comes an epic
tale of brotherly love, a sui generis novel swathed in the
all the magic of Russian folklore and set against the
backdrop of an all too possible dystopian alternate
reality.
Twin brothers Yarik and Dima have been
inseparable since childhood. Living on their uncle’s farm
after the death of their father, the boys once spent their
days helping and observing the fishermen, their nights
spellbound by their uncle’s mythic tales. Years later, the
two men labor side by side at the Oranzheria, a sprawling
glass greenhouse built over farmlands; a capitalist
experiment that keeps the surrounding townspeople in
perpetual daylight. Work is now the only thing the twins
have in common—stalwart Yarik is married with children, and
oppressed by the burden of responsibility and the pressures
of work, whilst dreamer Dima lives alone with his mother and
rooster and spends his time gingerly planning the brothers’
return to their uncle’s land.
One ordinary day, a
bizarre encounter with the Oranzerhia’s ruthless owner,
Boris Romanovitch Bazarov, changes the brother’s lives
forever. When Dima quits his job and Yarik garners
promotion, both men become poster boys for two very
different ideologies. As Yarik and Dima’s paths increasingly
diverge, they find themselves at the center of strange
conspiracies, disasters, deceptions, and greed, that not
only threaten to obliterate their bond, but divide the lives
of everyone around them.
A thrillingly ambitious
novel of love, loss, and light, set in an alternative
present-day Russia.
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