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Melmoth: A Novel Audiobook
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For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.
It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.
But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .
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“A chilling novel about confronting our complicity in past atrocities—and retaining the strength and moral courage to strive for the future.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“[An] exquisitely written gothic novel.”
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“A gothic masterwork.”
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“A horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love.”
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“A sobering, disturbing, yet powerful and moving book that cannot fail to impress.”
— Booklist (starred review) -
“Though rich in gothic tropes and sinister atmosphere, the novel transcends pastiche.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“For readers who favor ghost stories as bedtime reading, this fever dream of a novel will prove…compelling and all-consuming.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
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A 2018 NPR Best Book of the Year selection
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About Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, was longlisted for the London Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award. She holds an MFA degree in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches in the graduate program in creative writing at Colorado State University.