Publication
Random House Trade Paperbacks (2004), 528 pages
Collections
Awards
Booker Prize (Longlist — 2004)
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novel — 2004)
Audie Award (Finalist — 2006)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2004)
The Morning News Tournament of Books (Finalist — 2005)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Shortlist — Fiction — 2004)
Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Nominee — Novel — 2005)
The Economist Best Books (2004.5)
SF Site Editor's Choice (2004)
British Book Award (Winner — 2005)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (Shortlist — 2005)
South Bank Sky Arts Award (Literature — 2005)
Locus Recommended Reading (2004)
The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Notable Books List (2005)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender man) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Publisher's Summary: ...begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite... Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter...