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Lightning: A Novel | Linda Coverdale, Jean Echenoz
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Inspired by the life of Nikola Tesla, the author tells the story of Gregor, a young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels to America to work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a long-lasting rivalry.
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A fictional retelling of Nikola Tesla's life, the lead has another name but it's totally inspired by Tesla's life, electricity, inventions and pigeons all included. For the reader who knows Tesla's life, its eccentric life style, his idiocracies, Echenoz blends and condenses perfectly the larger than life character.