Sixteenth century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory th
Copernicus Avenue: stories
✍ Scribed by Andrew J. Borkowski
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The characters inhabiting Copernicus Avenue, a fictitious street modelled after Toronto's Roncesvalles neighbourhood, know all too well how deeply connected the present is to the past. But these people - a disparate cast made up of artists and soldiers, revolutionaries and innocents - are not hapless victims, subject to forces beyond their control. Like all who have journeyed to a new land, the people of Copernicus Avenue have turned their past into raw material to build a life with.
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