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From Publishers WeeklySet in late-19th-century Europe, this slim, melancholy, and sometimes thin novel affords considerable escapist pleasures. At 14, Jack, a misfit orphan with a cuckoo-clock installed in his chest, treks across Europe in search of Miss Acacia, a little singer... who's always bumping into things, he met four years before. In Paris, he finds a companion in Méliès, a lovesick, quixotic magician, and as their journey unfolds, Malzieu sketches European landscapes and crafts figurative language with irresistible relish: Miss Acacia's laugh, for instance, is as light as beads tumbling over a xylophone. After Jack reaches Spain and finds Miss Acacia, he embarks on a tumultuous relationship with his beloved that will alter his life forever. Despite a few too-cutesy sexual metaphors and coming-of-age tropes, the novel's sentimentality only rarely devolves into treacle. Calling to mind a host of cultural touchstones, from Pinocchio to The Wizard of Oz, this kaleidoscopic picaresque will enchant many adults and young people alike. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FromMalzieu opens this phantasmagorical novel

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Author

Mathias Malzieu

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307271686

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24