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English language

Published April 23, 2019 by ISIS.

ISBN:
978-1-78541-762-7
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OCLC Number:
1108747227

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Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a book binder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it ...

8 editions

Subjects

  • Bookbinders
  • Fiction
  • Bookbinding
  • Books and reading
  • Magic
  • Memory
  • Social classes
  • History
  • Relieurs
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Livres et lecture
  • Classes sociales
  • Histoire

Places

  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Angleterre
  • Grande-Bretagne