![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All that was salvaged from the fire were those seven pages which were being exhibited around the world more than 40 years later. ![]() Nobody else in the world had seen the book. The author, Inga Karlson, her publisher, Charles, and every copy of the book were destroyed by flames. The Fragments is an exhibit of seven fire-damaged pages of a book the world had yearned for back in the 1930s. A young bookseller, Caddie, is lined up at the art gallery to see an exhibition she’s been hanging out for. This is a literary mystery with strong female protagonists, a story told in two timeframes and on opposite sides of the world. Jolted her from her sleepy, no-worries life in torpid 1980s Brisbane she is driven to investigate: to find the clues that will unlock the greatest literary mystery of the twentieth century. The woman quotes a phrase from the Karlson fragments that Caddie knows does not exist-and yet to Caddie, who knows Inga Karlson’s work like she knows her name, it feels genuine.Ĭaddie is electrified. Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition featuring the famous fragments when she meets a charismatic older woman. Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book-and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Author: Toni Jordan Publisher/Year: Text Publishing/2018 ![]()
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