Also by Barry Unsworth
The Partnership
The Greeks Have a Word for It
The Hide
Mooncranker’s Gift
The Big Day
Pascali’s Island (published in the United States under the title The Idol Hunter)
The Rage of the Vulture
Stone Virgin
Sugar and Rum
Sacred Hunger
Morality Play
After Hannibal
Losing Nelson
The Songs of the Kings
The Ruby in Her Navel
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Barry Unsworth
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese,
an imprint of The Doubleday Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Unsworth, Barry, 1930–
Land of marvels : a novel / Barry Unsworth. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Archaeologists—Great Britain—Fiction. 2. British—Iraq—Fiction. 3. Geologists—United States—Fiction. 4. Americans—Iraq—Fiction. 5. Excavations (Archaeology)—Iraq—Fiction. 6. Petroleum—Prospecting—Iraq—Fiction. 7. Petroleum industry and trade—Middle East—History—Fiction. 8. Great Britain—Foreign relations—1910–1936—Fiction. 9. Iraq—History—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6071.N8L36 2009
823’.914—dc22
2008009201
eISBN: 978-0-385-52947-1
v1.0