Powered by both wit and compassion, and in characteristically vivid prose, this love story with a violently unromantic setting excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.
Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other\'s eye, after we have seen who we really are?.
And no one could.
A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away.
The courtiers couldn\'t look at it.
The king couldn\'t look at it.
The wizard couldn\'t look at it without turning away.
It showed you your soul--it showed you who you really were.
This mirror didn\'t show you your reflection. --NPR Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror.
A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.
Powerful and electric....
Powered by both wit and compassion, and in characteristically vivid prose, this love story with a violently unromantic setting excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul
