Description

From the writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "among the excellent numbers on the edge of the century" comes a book that brings a whole world that indicates our very own, but moved on its axis—a world whose most effective nation, Voorstand, characterizes its neighbors with callous espionage and its mesmerizing but soul destroying Sirkus.Into that world comes Tristan Smith, a malformed, heroically willful, and unforgivingly watchful kid. Tristanis existence contains reduction and journey, political interest, and a weird fame within the Voorstand Sirkus, where individual entertainers and animals speak expire actual fatalities. The end result is just a picaresque, openly shifting in its innovations, mesmerizing in its suspense, and incredible.