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THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS - ALEKSANDAR HE...

'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell  author of Cloud
Atlas    The World and All That It Holds is the epic  cross-continental tale of a love so
strong it conquers the Great War  revolution  and even death itself.   As the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914  Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and
grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not
quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna  but
it's nothing a dash of laudanum  a summer stroll and idle fantasies can't put in perspective. 
And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia  fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a
man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known  and the only thing Pinto has to live
for are the attentions of Osman  a fellow soldier  a man of action to complement Pinto's
introspective  poetic soul  a charismatic storyteller and Pinto's protector and lover. 
Together  Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and
Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across deserts  from one world to another  all
the way to Shanghai  it is Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive.   'A staggering work
of beauty and brutality' - Douglas Stuart  Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and
Young Mungo

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