The Stockholm Octavo
By: Karen Engelmann
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Ecco Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780062218506
Subjects: Epistolary fiction; English fiction
Description: Emil Larsson, a bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm, drinker, card player, and bachelor, begins a search when a fortune teller lays an Octavo for him, a spread of eight cards that foretell that eight individuals can help him to realize a vision to lead him to love and connection.