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Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition.

ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence.

Maurice Barres, who first wielded the politics of identity. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's cheerleader.

The Maoist Ding Ling, whose stories exculpated the regime that...

A novel of prodigious scope and ambition, ablaze with imaginative energy and rendered in mesmerizing prose--complete with polar bear attacks, tsunamis, modern piracy, airship crashes, Cold War intrigue, and a djinn

May 25, 1928: Over the frozen seas of the Arctic, an airship falls out of the sky. Among the survivors is a young scientist on the verge of a discovery that will redefine physics. October 3, 1996: Through the dusty industrial towns of India's Great Trunk Road, a disgraced and disfigured female detective starts tracking a criminal syndicate whose tentacles spread from forgery...