Sublunar

In the sixteenth century, on the island of Hven, the pioneering Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, is undertaking an elaborate study of the night skyA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world�_Ts most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants�_"a filthy cast of characters�_"Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new nose�_"flesh, wood, or gold?�_"Brahe (a choleric and capricious character) and his peculiar helpers (�_oI would rather watch her globes tonight than icy stars�__) take painstaking measurements that will revolutionize astronomy, long before the invention of the telescope. Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe�_�The second in Voetmann�_Ts triptych of historical novels, Sublunar is as visceral, absurd, and tragic as its predecessor, Awake, but with a special nocturnal glow and a lunatic-edged gaze trained on the moon and the stars.