In a series of delicately interlaced stories, Sam Meekings' richly poetic and gripping second novel follows the journeys of characters whose lives, separated by millennia, are all in some way touched by the mysterious Book of Crows - a mythical book in which the entire history of the world - past, present and future - is written down.
A young girl is kidnapped and taken through the desert to an isolated mountain brothel. Two thousand years later, after a suspicious landslide near Lanzhou, a low-level bureaucrat searches for a missing colleague. A thirteenthcentury Franciscan monk, traversing the Silk Road, begins his extraordinary deathbed confession, while five hundred years earlier, a grieving Chinese poet is summoned to the Emperor's palace.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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A young girl is kidnapped and taken through the desert to an isolated mountain brothel. Two thousand years later, after a suspicious landslide near Lanzhou, a low-level bureaucrat searches for a missing colleague.
The Book of Crows features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Book of Crows was written by Sam Meekings and published by Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited an imprint of Birlinn General
The Book of Crows has 400 pages
