Dictionary Lampriere

In his debut Novel, suddenly uplifted by a young author at the top of the British literary Olympus, Lawrence Norfolk connects the seemingly irreconcilable: the founding of the East India company in 1600 and the siege of La Rochelle twenty-seven years later, the release of the "Classical dictionary of antiquity, Lempriere" on the Eve of the French revolution and Nine secret rulers of the world...Alternating episodes of creepy and funny shiver into hysterics, Norfolk Masterfully keeps the reader in suspense from the first page to the last - he describes paranoid surveys, worthy of the pen of the Pynchon, or the delirium of love charm