An object of glittering yet fearful fascination -was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing? -the Venetian mirrors were state-of-the-art technology, subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. The core story is set in sixteenth-century Venice, where, on the island of Murano, the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. Set in three different eras, and in three different locations-all, coincidentally, named Venice-this “startling, beautiful gem of a book” (NPR) calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARĪ Publishers Weekly BEST BOOK OF THE YEARĪ globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written … the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."
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