by Christoph Ransmayr · Büchergilde Gutenberg · tapa dura · ISBN 9783763269136
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«Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit» is the historical novel by Christoph Ransmayr, published by Büchergilde Gutenberg in hardback (303 pages, in German).
English clockmaker Alister Cox travels to the Forbidden City at the invitation of the Emperor of China to build clocks. In a court of excess, pomp and fear, he must create machines that measure the fleetingness of human life, from the days of a child to those of a man condemned to death. In the end, the emperor asks him for a clock that measures eternity.
The novel was nominated for the Angelus Prize in 2019; the first edition dates from 2016 and this hardback edition was published in 2017.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary German narrative, especially those who enjoy stories set in the Chinese imperial court.
Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.
