Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB

**? There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth? s knowing depiction of a decaying empire.? ? \*The New Yorker**\* In this masterful work of historical fiction set during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, the schemes of Western powers grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia come vividly to

Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 146 KB

Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 🌐 UND ⚖ 157 KB

Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Point Large Print 🌐 English ⚖ 162 KB

SUMMARY: Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and do

Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Point Large Print 🌐 English ⚖ 164 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Booker Prize-winning Unsworth (\_The Ruby in Her Navel\_) sets his intelligent and timely new book in Mesopotamia during the spring of 1914, just before the chaos of WWI. John Somerville, a British archeologist desperate for fame, worries that his new discovery, an ancien

Land of Marvels

✍ Unsworth, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Point Large Print 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB

SUMMARY: Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and do