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4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this book. At the outset, it reminded me a bit of The Shadow of the Wind with its atmospheric tone with a touch of suspense and creepiness.
The story opens at an antiquarian bookseller in Toulouse, France. Our main character, a young man, presents the shop owner with a very old piece of parchment written in a long-gone language. He needs a translator, but the shop owner wants to know how he came to have it first. It's the telling of this story that makes up the bulk o ...more
The story opens at an antiquarian bookseller in Toulouse, France. Our main character, a young man, presents the shop owner with a very old piece of parchment written in a long-gone language. He needs a translator, but the shop owner wants to know how he came to have it first. It's the telling of this story that makes up the bulk o ...more
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