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Our 30% Off Featured Trade Paperback for the month of April. Wharton's second novel careens through the eighteenth century world of ideas. An eccentric count in Slovakia summons the great London printer Nicholas Flood to his castle for an unusual assignment: the creation of an infinite book. When Flood is drawn to the count's daughter, their passion becomes the catalyst for a quest to discover and tell the infinite story.
About this Author
THOMAS WHARTON has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Japan, and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean and was also a 2008 CBC Canada Reads pick. His next book, Salamander, was shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General's Award for Fiction and was also a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize the same year. In 2006, Wharton's collection of stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award. Thomas currently lives near Edmonton, Alberta.
Reviews
"A remarkable, electrifying novel." --Georgia Straight
"A novel as sensual and fantastic as a fairy tale and as thoughtful and as beautifully written as anything we might expect from Michael Ondaatje and Isabel Allende." --London Free Press
"Witty, elliptical and provoking. . . . Delightful." --Montreal Gazette
"A cabinet of wonders." --Globe and Mail
"A vigorous, imaginative novel about the power of reading and invention." --Quill & Quire
"Salamander is the sort of book every reader hopes to find, earnestly passes along to friends, and returns to in their dreams. . . . A visceral, compelling novel that will reward both serious inquiry and reading for pure pleasure. . . . A beautiful, emotionally resonant postmodern novel." --National Post
"This novel cannot help but connect deeply with its readers." --Edmonton Journal
"It's all too rare that you pick up a book and find yourself inexorably swept into a different world, thoroughly absorbed in a realm far removed from the here and now. . . . Salamander captivates its readers, holds them spellbound, and persists in memory long after you've turned the final page. . . . Thoroughly absorbing." --Vancouver Sun
"Wharton's novel is both spellbinding and encyclopedic. . . . It is a book lovers' book and a lovers' story." --New Brunswick Reader
"Salamander is an extraordinary book of possibilities." --Calgary Herald
"[Wharton] cement[s] his reputation as one of Canada's most promising young writers." --Maclean's
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