The Cloud Sketcher
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: March 19, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780060956134
First sentence: It began with news of an elevator, in 1901 an instrument unknown, unheard of, undreamed of in the tiny Finnish village where Esko grew up, as close to the Arctic Circle as to the capital Helsinki.