The Book of Fathers
A Novel
Published on 13. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-59051-339-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1705, Kornell Csillag's grandfather happens across a gold watch--a magical watch that brings the gift of clairvoyance to the family's first-born sons. This gift offers the ability to look into the future or back into history--for some it is a blessing, for others a curse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59051-339-2 (9781590513392)
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Miklós Vámos Miklós Vámos is one of the most respected and widely read writers in his native Hungary. He is the author of twenty-eight books, eleven of them novels. He has taught at Yale University on a Fulbright fellowship, served as The Nation's Eastern Europe correspondent, and was the host of a popular cultural TV talk show in Hungary. Today he is a correspondent for the Washington Post online. He is the father of three children, including a daughter who lives in London and five-year-old twin boys in Budapest.