Konstantin

✍ Scribed by Bullough, Tom

• Book ID: 109755737
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 603 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141972213

✦ Synopsis

Tom Bullough's Konstantin is a mesmerising novel about how the imagination can inspire the individual to greatness.

1867, Ryazan, a Russian city in winter. Ten-year-old Konstantin, deafened by scarlet fever, dreams of flight - escaping to Moscow, fleeing to the silent stars. And his daring visions, pregnant with humanity's future, will take him further than anyone could believe.

Moving from wolf-infested forests to the brothels of Moscow, from village life to the wondrous Age of Steam, from appalling tragedy to the discovery of a great love,Konstantin tells the beguiling story of a man who imagined the unimaginable: turning the dream of space travel into a reality.

As vivid and evocative as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , Konstantin is a story of man, nature, and the limitless power of the imagination.

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