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William Morrow
April 2019
On Sale: April 16, 2019
448 pages
ISBN: 0062838091
EAN: 9780062838094
Kindle: B07CCMKKL6
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Literature and Fiction
Imagine you could erase grief.
Imagine you could remove pain.
Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret.
Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange
letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to
begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that
arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their
small community, but one neither he nor his parents can
afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to
books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding
is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice,
and he is a binder born. Under the old woman’s watchful eye,
Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound
volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique
and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want
to forget, a binder can help. If there’s something you need
to erase, they can assist. Within the pages of the books
they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked
away. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop rows upon rows
of books are meticulously stored. But while Seredith is an artisan, there are others of their
kind, avaricious and amoral tradesman who use their talents
for dark ends—and just as Emmett begins to settle into his
new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: one of
the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he
understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten. An unforgettable novel of enchantment, mystery, memory, and
forbidden love, The Binding is a beautiful homage
to the allure and life-changing power of books—and a
reminder to us all that knowledge can be its own kind of magic.
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