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The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart / Mathias Malzieu ; translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone.
Van Pelt Library PQ2713.A374 M4313 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malzieu, Mathias.
- Standardized Title:
- Mécanique du cœur. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Heart, Artificial--Fiction.
- Heart, Artificial.
- Genre:
- Love stories.
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2010]
- Summary:
- Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
- Notes:
- Translation originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2009.
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN:
- 9780307271686
- 0307271684
- OCLC:
- 429022030
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