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Ecco
May 2012
On Sale: June 23, 2012
432 pages
ISBN: 0061995347
EAN: 9780061995347
Kindle: B006SJCKVE
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Fiction | Thriller
Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied
bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791
Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town—a drinker, card
player, and contented bachelor—until one evening when Mrs.
Sofia Sparrow, a fortune-teller and proprietor of an
exclusive gaming parlor, shares with him a vision she has
had: a golden path that will lead him to love and
connection. She lays an Octavo for him, a spread of eight
cards that augur the eight individuals who can help him
realize this vision—if he can find them. Emil begins his search, intrigued by the puzzle of his
Octavo and the good fortune Mrs. Sparrow's vision portends.
But when Mrs. Sparrow wins a mysterious folding fan in a
card game, the Octavo's deeper powers are revealed. For Emil
it is no longer just a game of the heart; collecting his
eight is now crucial to pulling his country back from the
crumbling precipice of rebellion and chaos. Set against the
luminous backdrop of late eighteenth-century Stockholm, as
the winds of revolution rage through the great capitals of
Europe, The Stockholm Octavo brings together a collection of
characters, both fictional and historical, whose lives
tangle in political conspiracy, love, and magic in a
breathtaking debut that will leave you spellbound.
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