Autor Francis Spufford

1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time.Everything else has been melted down for the war effort. An instant later,…

** From the author of Golden Hill **'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'Superb.' Guardian'My god he can write. One of the best opening chapters and closing chapters…

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island. 1746. One rainy evening, a charming young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition - he has an order…

Rok 1746. Do New Yorku, tehdy malého obchodního přístavu se sedmi tisíci obyvateli ve vzdálené Americe, přijíždí mladý Angličan se směnkou na závratnou částku 1000 liber ve zlatě, k vyplacení jistou firmou do 60 dnů. Jaké je jeho poslání a jak hodlá…