THE BOOK OF FATHERS BY MIKLOS VAMOS

*Books are timeless... this is a pre-loved copy

In 1705 Kornel Csillag's grandfather happens across a miraculous gold fob-watch which is to improve dramatically the family's shipwrecked fortunes - for the timepiece bestows an unexpected gift on succeeding generations of male Csillags; the gift of seeing. And each clairvoyant first-born son in turn passes down the Book of Fathers, a battered folio in which the family records its astonishing, vivid and revelatory visions.

Headlong, exuberant, riotous, and packed tight with stories, jokes and tragedy, The Book of Fathers is an irrestibly rich Central European feast of a book, parable, folktale, and epic all rolled into one.