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THE STOCKHOLM OCTAVO

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Simon Vance

Fiction • 12.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2012

Cartomancy is divination using regular playing cards in a game called the Octavo. This and the language and geometry of fans, as well as several other arcane practices, form the intriguing premise of Karen Englemann’s engrossing debut novel. Mrs. Sparrow, mistress of a gaming establishment in late-eighteenth-century Sweden, predicts a golden future for minor customs official Emil Larsson. Simon Vance does everything right as Emil meets the human embodiments of the eight cards that are destined to assist him. With characters as diverse as King Gustav, a French fan-maker, and the scheming Uzanne, Vance never misses a step. His descriptions of several luscious young women, and of one particular fan thought to contain magical powers, are a marvel of nuance and subtlety. A delicious pairing of narrator and material. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2013]

Trade Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2013

CD ISBN 9781470885519 $32.95 • Ten CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781470885496 $29.95 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN 9781470885533 multiple sources

 

Library Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2013

CD ISBN 9781470885526 $109.00 • Ten CDs

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