{"product_id":"the-orphanmaster-isbn-9780143123538","title":"The Orphanmaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eA love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. Among those looking into the mystery are a shrewd young Dutch woman, Blandine van Couvering, and a dashing Englishman, Edward Drummond, whose newfound romance is threatened by horrible accusations.\u003cbr\u003e             In this spellbinding work of historical fiction, Jean Zimmerman relates the harsh realities of life in early Manhattan, re-creating the sights, smells, and textures of the rough settlement surrounded by wilderness and subject to political turmoil. Compulsively readable and filled with New York history, \u003ci\u003eThe Orphanmaster\u003c\/i\u003e will delight fans of Caleb Carr, Hilary Mantel, and Geraldine Brooks. \u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Orphanmaster\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Orphanmaster\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping novel of great and precise imaginative intelligence; it's also the most entertaining and believable historical novel I've read in years. Jean Zimmerman is a debut novelist who already writes like an old master. Read any page of \u003ci\u003eThe Orphanmaster\u003c\/i\u003e and you'll become an instant fan.” \u003cb\u003e– Darin Strauss, author of \u003ci\u003eHalf a Life \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChang and Eng\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jean Zimmerman's seventeenth-century New Amsterdam teems with enough intrigue, lust, and madness to give our twenty-first-century Big Apple a run for its money. And money is what drives this book – liberating, corrupting, forming the only bulwark against a terrifying, chaotic New World. Zimmerman's wit and humanity shine light in a dark woods, creating an uncommonly rich debut.” \u003cb\u003e– Sheri Holman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dress Lodger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Here’s American history turned inside out, animated by Jean Zimmerman’s prodigious imagination. Monsters lurk in the shadows, chaos presses in, legends come alive, and one adventure leads with irresistible force to the next. \u003ci\u003eThe Orphanmaster\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking achievement.” \u003cb\u003e– Joanna Scott, author of \u003ci\u003eArrogance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVarious Antidotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] compulsively readable, heartbreaking, and grisly mystery set in a wild colonial America.” \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eALA Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A feisty young Dutch woman, an English spy, and a local demon all cross paths in 1663 New Amsterdam, in this Ludlumesque historical thriller…a successful mix of historical fiction, spy thriller, and horror.” \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As in the best historical fiction, [Zimmerman] has created a kind of truce between the authority of the past and the accessibility of the present, revealing to us what it once meant to be alive, and what that history means to us now ... on nearly every page there is some unobtrusively offered word or description, of food, of architecture, of dress, that brings the period and its people into clearer focus.\" – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absorbing period fiction with the requisite colorful characters of the era.\" – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eLove, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Ossining, New York. This is her first novel.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301337420005,"sku":"NP9780143123538","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143123538.jpg?v=1767740824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-orphanmaster-isbn-9780143123538","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}