Melmoth
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sarah Perry
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780062859686
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Legends; Translators; Large type books; Imaginary creatures; Fiction; Superstition
Description: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, 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. . . "--