Cox by Christoph Ransmayr HARDBACK 9780857427366

Coxor The Course of Time\nAuthor(s): Christoph Ransmayr, Simon Pare\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seagull Books London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780857427366, 978-0857427366\nSynopsis\nRichly imagined and recounted in vivid prose of extraordinary beauty,this book is a stunning illustration of Ransmayrs talent for imbuing a captivating tale with intense metaphorical, indeed metaphysical force.\n\n The worlds most powerful man, Qinlng, emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenth-century clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that mark the passing of time as a child or a condemned man might experience it and that capture the many shades of happiness, suffering, love, and loss that come with that passing.\n\n Mystified by the rituals of a rigidly hierarchical society dominated by an unimaginably wealthy, god-like ruler, Cox musters all hi.