The Chemistry Of Tears

Author: Peter Carey

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  • : $24.00 NZD
  • : 9781760896423
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : Penguin
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  • : March 2020
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  • : 2003
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Description

When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London's Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project- a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It's an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age's downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.