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FABRIZIO'S RETURN (Knopf Canada)

Fabrizio's Return won the 2006 Trillium Book Award and the 2007 Sunburst Award, and was Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada/Caribbean Region) for Best Book.

A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, Commedia del’Arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons, and cracks in time.

It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the Commedia del’ Arte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage.

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									Book News FABRIZIO'S RETURN (Knopf Canada) Fabrizio's Return won the 2006 Trillium Book Award and the 2007 Sunburst Award, and was Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada/Caribbean Region) for Best Book. A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, Commedia del’Arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons, and cracks in time. It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the Commedia del’ Arte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage. More...