The Secret Books
(, Main)
Publishing Details
The Secret Books
By (Author) Marcel Theroux
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st April 2019
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
302g
Description
A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel.
A young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of nineteenth-century Paris. Beginning a treacherous journey through a world of spies and double-cross, propaganda, lost love, and anti-Semitism, he enters a modern world where lies have the power of truth.
Based on real events, The Secret Books is at once a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and to die for.
Author Bio
Marcel Theroux is the author of four previous novels, A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase, winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award, and Far North which was short-listed for the America's prestigious National Book Award.
He lives in London.
