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Six lives

Tidhar, Lavie2024

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Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold. The guano merchant. In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co. Momento mori. In 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic. The country house murder. In 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder. The spy. In 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus. Zabbaleen. In 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at Black Dirt, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo. New York. In 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for all. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?