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description: For centuries the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of historys darkest waters-and now in Sarah Perrys breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent it is heading in our direction.It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague working as a translator she has found a home of sortsor at least refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it Melmoth travels through the ages dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.But unaware as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .
language: English
title: Melmoth
publisher: HarperAudio