Andrew Miller
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Best Book Of 2022 (New Yorker)
A Best Book Of Fall 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone.
A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast,
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Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Language
English
Description
The clearing of a cemetery stokes the fires of revolution in eighteenth-century France.
Paris, 1785. An ambitious young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris charged with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, an ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood's air and water. A self-styled modern man of reason, Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear away the burden of history. But he soon suspects that the destruction...