Designer name to come
About to finish DeLillo’s Falling Man, I think I need a something a little lighter for my next book. This might be it:
From the Publishers Weekly review: “Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen of Hungary, anxious to win the favor of Empress Maria Theresia, builds an engineering marvel: the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton. The Turk, though, isn’t exactly as it seems; hidden inside is Italian chess prodigy (and dwarf) Tibor Scardenelli.” Murder, deceit and other tasty things follow.
The silhouette approach seems very appropriate for a novel set in 1770.
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