Passarola Rising
by Abidi, Azhar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New in new dust jacket. Remainder mark across lower page block.
- ISBN 10
- 0670034657
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034659
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
The fabulous debut novel by new international talent Azhar Abidi, Passarola Rising is a deftly written picaresque tale filled with evocative detail, adventure, and suspense. Set in eighteenth-century Europe, it tells the story of Bartolomeu and Alexandre Lourenco, who use their airship, the Passarola, to escape the strictures of the Church, the suspicion of the government, and the intellectually stultifying climate of Lisbon. As they venture from the salons and bordellos of ancien regime Paris to the desolate far reaches of the North Pole, the brothers Lourenco encounter some of the most colorful characters of the European Enlightenment, including the loquacious Voltaire and the irascible King Stanislaus of Poland.
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0001969
- Title
- Passarola Rising
- Author
- Abidi, Azhar
- Illustrator
- Malone, Peter (Cover art by).
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670034657
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034659
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Peter Malone, artist|Pakistani author|Australian author|Portugal 18th century setting|Flying-machines|Airship|Fraternal companionship
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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