{"product_id":"9781612195155","title":"The Mirror Thief","description":"\u003cb\u003eA globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror Thief\u003c\/i\u003e calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto  Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  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\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ewas it reflecting simple reality, or something more  spiritually revealing?\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ethe 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\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ea  world-weary war hero with nothing to lose\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ehas a scheme he thinks will  allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the  ominous Council of Ten . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, in two other Venices\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eVenice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino  in Las Vegas, circa today\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003etwo other schemers launch similarly  dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll three stories  will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is  impossible to put down\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ean 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139233595632,"sku":"9781612195155","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612195155_p0.jpg?v=1763844707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612195155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}