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The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Mathias Malzieu
Vintage
February 2010
On Sale: February 10, 2010
193 pages
ISBN: 0307472132
EAN: 9780307472137
Kindle: B0036S4CFW
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Childrens | Science Fiction
FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart.
SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in
love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your
skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break
once more. Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near
death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr.
Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans—who
saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is
in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled
flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical
spine. As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart
is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall
in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on
his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The
object of his ardor is Miss Acacia—a bespectacled young
street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jack’s
life is doubly at risk—his heart is in danger and so is his
safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the
affections of the beautiful singer. Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh
to Paris to Miss Acacia’s home in Andalusia. Mathias
Malzieu’s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a
fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreak—by
turns poignant and funny—in which Jack finally learns the
great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a
fully formed heart.
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