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The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet romance at the dawn of the electric age, with the nation balancing on the brink of world war and a scientific revolution.In 1914 Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that have claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times.…
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10 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Harper Perennial · 414 pages · 9780060825256
- Ebook · English · 2006HarperCollins · 9780060873936
- Hardcover · English · 2006HarperCollins · 432 pages · 9780060825249
- Other · English · 2011Lightning KeeperTransworld Publishers Limited · 544 pages · 9780552777230
- Other · English · 2011Lightning KeeperTransworld Publishers Limited · 9781446421581
- Other · English · 2009Lightning KeeperHarperCollins Publishers · 9780061856792
FictionHistorical FictionLiteratureFiction, romance, generalUnited states, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, romance, historical, generalFiction, thrillers, technological