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The Man Who Traded Shadows
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Elias Grove
Published: Jul 28 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a city of forgotten beauty and crumbling memories, one man sculpts the souls of the lost-at the cost of his own.
Blind sculptor Solomon Dyer awakens to a shadow that isn't his. In the rain-soaked ruins of Veridia, where sorrow clings to every crumbling wall, he discovers a haunting gift: the ability to absorb the grief of others through mysterious, shifting shadows that imprint themselves upon him. Each morning, a new shadow arrives-each night, a new sculpture gives form to a sorrow not his own.
As the city slowly heals through his work, Solomon begins to unravel. Memories fade, his identity fragments, and a mysterious woman named Lyra appears, offering riddles and a glimpse of the truth behind his strange affliction. To reclaim himself, Solomon must follow the trail of shadows through the city's labyrinth of secrets and sorrow-toward a final sculpture that may save Veridia... or cost him everything.
The Man Who Traded Shadows is a lyrical, deeply emotional journey through grief, memory, and the transformative power of art. For fans of The Shadow of the Wind, The Night Circus, and The Book Thief, this novel is a testament to the enduring beauty found in broken things-and the price of healing a world through the heart of one man.
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