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A very strange company meets in an inn: the romantic courtesan Veronique, the mystic Marquis, the practical banker de Berl, the mute boy Gauche and the British gentleman Berling. The three of them will go to distant lands to find the Book that contains all human wisdom. As is often the case, the centre of Olga Tokarchuk's story is the word and the power with which it affects all living things.