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The apprentice

Lewis Libby

1996239 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1996
first published
  • 1996Graywolf Press · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9781555972455
  • 2002Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780312284534
  • 2013St. Martin's Press · ENGISBN 9781466855182

At the turn of the century, a blizzard maroons guests in a mountain inn in Japan. They are an odd lot and include a theater troupe. There is robbery, murder and love. The protagonist is the innkeeper's apprentice. A first novel.

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