num_pages: 65
description: August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book--the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night after another day of dispiriting dead ends he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore and the possibilities before him expand exponentially.
language: English
title: Ajax Penumbra 1969
publisher: Picador