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The Mirror Thief

por Martin Seay

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."
Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.
The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination??was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing???the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however??a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose??has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . .
Meanwhile, in two other Venices??Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today??two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . .
All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down??an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.
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I'm gonna say I read it; I read about 100 pages and then threw it away. It is extremely rare for me to not finish a book I start, AND to throw it away rather than pass it along, but I found this one so tedious and amateurish--every character speaking in the same voice, for one thing--I felt it best to recycle into some other product rather than let it live on as a book. ( )
  mlevel | Jan 22, 2024 |
Parts of this book were terrific. The first half of the book was great. Then........meh. Too bad. I read that this book was in the same league as Cloud Atlas. Not so much. ( )
  Maryjane75 | Sep 30, 2023 |
Couldn't really get into the story. I gave up after about 75 pages. ( )
  monnibo | Dec 30, 2021 |
fiction (stories from different time periods sandwiched within each other a la "cloud atlas"). I read to page 180-something, then decided I didn't care about all of the stories' so called "suspenseful" missing details to bother reading another 400 pages. I found the author's tone (which changed from story to story) to be at times dry, at times impersonal--kind of an interesting way to impart a character's coldness or a period's atmosphere, but not effectively riveting for me.

note that this book did get some significantly good reviews, so if you like long sagas of interconnected stories, by all means check it out from your library. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
Really rich and interesting - a book that feels like it is making use of a layered multinarrator structure instead of just doing a magic trick. Looking forward to revisiting this someday when we’re not in the middle of the 2020 hellscape and I can read it more diligently. ( )
  skolastic | Feb 2, 2021 |
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The distinctive voices in the three major sections were a semi-incidental side effect of pursuing another major priority: I wanted the dominant point of view in those sections to be an extremely close third person. My rule — which I bent a little in the first chapter of each section in order to get the reader situated — was that the narration can only mention something when the protagonist is aware of it. This has the obvious effect of obliging the reader to see through the protagonists’ eyes, but it also has the (I hope) more subtle effect of hiding things from the reader that the protagonists have stopped being aware of just because those things are too obvious, or too close. (Visibility and invisibility are big concerns in the book, and I’ve tried to play with the fact that things are actually more likely to slip past us when they’re being taken for granted than when they’re being hidden.)
 
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."
Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.
The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination??was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing???the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however??a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose??has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . .
Meanwhile, in two other Venices??Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today??two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . .
All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down??an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.
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