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In Search Of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories Of Eight Mythical
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This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books The clues are fragile the hope of finding these pages scarce Yet maybe somewhere they still existThey exist as a rumour or a fading memory They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace lost to fire censorship theft war or deliberate destruction yet those who seek them are convinced they will find themThis is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost booksTaking us from Florence to Regency London the Russian Steppe to British Columbia Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate There are among others the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du
Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become realityAs gripping as a detective novel as moving as an elegy this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible of the things that slip away from us but which sometimes live again in the stories we tell
Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become realityAs gripping as a detective novel as moving as an elegy this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible of the things that slip away from us but which sometimes live again in the stories we tell
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