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With translation rights bought from twenty-five countries, Gordon Dahlquist’s spectacular and extraordinary debut novel was one of the most-talked-about acquisitions of 2005. Now this monumental Victorian thriller is destined to be the publishing sensation of 2006.
It commenced with a straightforward note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temple’s fiancé, written on crisp Ministry paper and delivered on her behalf maid’s silver tray. But for Miss Temple, Roger Bascombe’s cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for answers, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors—and a remote estate where danger abounds and all inhibitions are stripped bare.…Thus begins Gordon Dahlquist’s debut novel of Victorian suspense—simultaneously a dazzling feast for the senses and a beguiling, erotic literary adventure.
Nothing may have prepared Miss Temple for where her pursuit of Roger Bascombe would take her—or for the shocking things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she'll also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, simultaneously fumbling and heroic—both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. As the unlikely trio seek out answers—hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking occasions of self-discovery-- they are really faced with puzzles within puzzles. As well as the closer they reach the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face—an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power—is so terrifying concerning be beyond belief.
In a novel that shatters conventions and seethes with danger and eroticism, Gordon Dahlquist has made a magnificent literary debut. And in Miss Temple he has generated an unforgettable guide through a disturbing, seductive, and all-too-real world. By turns brutal and tender, shocking and deliciously romantic, The Glass Books of this Dream Eaters is a novel for the ages, a bold and brilliant work of the imagination
