Ratings
Rated: 13 times. Average rating 4
Description
A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early 19th century and follows an unlikely friendship between a French Revolution survivor and an itinerant English engraver's son. By the two-time Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda.
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