Night is a Shadow Cast By the World

By Brian Panhuyzen
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Published: Dec. 01, 2011
Words: 125986 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

A vintage airplane lands behind Cordell and Marla's house. Cordell steps out to investigate, and as Marla watches helplessly from a window, he climbs aboard and the plane takes off. So begins an odyssey that will carry Cordell to the ends of the Earth, and Marla into the depths of her dreams. Will they find what they need? And will they ever be reunited?

Extended description

A mysterious airplane lands behind Cordell and Marla Bechard’s house. Cordell steps out to investigate, and as Marla watches from the window, he climbs aboard – and it takes off.

Marla is left grappling with a question – was Cordell kidnapped, or did he leave willingly? The answer may be buried at Bechard’s Books, Cordell’s eccentric bookstore, a creaky, captivating shop packed to the rafters with books old and new, and serving as a hub for the town’s idiosyncratic bibliophiles. As she assumes management of the store – a task that includes overseeing Cordell’s awkward and hilarious assistant Daniel – she encounters puzzles she will be forced to solve if she is to understand not only what has happened to Cordell, but the very nature of his love for her.

Cordell meanwhile is flung across the globe in a series of harrowing adventures that will test his mettle, compelling him to apply his vast scholarly knowledge to a practical endeavour in which he has been casually... (Read more) A mysterious airplane lands behind Cordell and Marla Bechard’s house. Cordell steps out to investigate, and as Marla watches from the window, he climbs aboard – and it takes off.

Marla is left grappling with a question – was Cordell kidnapped, or did he leave willingly? The answer may be buried at Bechard’s Books, Cordell’s eccentric bookstore, a creaky, captivating shop packed to the rafters with books old and new, and serving as a hub for the town’s idiosyncratic bibliophiles. As she assumes management of the store – a task that includes overseeing Cordell’s awkward and hilarious assistant Daniel – she encounters puzzles she will be forced to solve if she is to understand not only what has happened to Cordell, but the very nature of his love for her.

Cordell meanwhile is flung across the globe in a series of harrowing adventures that will test his mettle, compelling him to apply his vast scholarly knowledge to a practical endeavour in which he has been casually participating – a world that involves political intrigue, clandestine dispatches, and violence. And to his horror he will discover that his role in this conflict has placed both himself and Marla in grave danger, and the only way to protect her is to remain silent about his whereabouts and safety. His journey will ultimately take him around the world to the place of Marla’s origin – and the core of her own secrets.

Separated by oceans and continents, Cordell and Marla will discover more about each other than they ever did while living in the same house, secrets that will ultimately strengthen their love.

But will they be reunited?

Night is a Shadow Cast By the World is an absorbing, funny, insightful novel about books, travel, aviation, music, and the nature of love and marriage.

In these pages: a legendary airplane, the perfect bookstore, a brilliant dog, a marriage in trouble, a beautiful reactionary, an unsolved murder, unrequited musical passion, a jailbreak, a shipment of guns, a Mexican revolution, Russian mafia, lathes and lawnmowers, a dead guy in a restroom, a book treasure hunt, takeoffs and landings in fire, hot wasabi, anti-capitalism protests, cracking a password, a paranoid bookseller, the patron saint of epoxy, tropical islands, wandering in the desert, a mid-air gun battle between vintage airplanes, New Delhi markets, familial subterfuge, alleged crossdressing, killers on a stakeout, a violent mole among the rebels, coerced confessions, hiding out in church, a sister’s crush, engine trouble over the Pacific, a last breath summoned by Handel, learning to fly, journalistic libel, chance encounters with rare books, notebooks of desire, a photoshoot with camels and supermodels, how to pamper Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf as a toxin, the Kama Sutra in French, Vonnegut as comfort, stunt kites, $1,000,000 in cash, flying below radar, tequila shots in the alameda, lock-picking explained, and more.
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mexico, india, bookshops, aviation adventure, dc3 dakota, antiquarian books

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