In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times.
Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.
But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.
Author(s): Spufford, Francis (author),
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 05/10/2023,
Pagination: 496 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Faber & Faber,
Published By: FABER & FABER ,
Book Classification: Fiction & related items,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571336876