The Invention of Everything Else
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The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid. Louisa, obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests, first catches sight of the hotel’s most famous resident on New Year’s Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man. As they share their mutual affinity for pigeons, Louisa begins to piece together the story of Tesla’s extraordinary life as an …
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FictionAwardsFictionFiction SubjectsScience & Technology - FictionOccupations - FictionLiterary Styles & Movements - FictionHistorical FictionScientists - FictionFiction - Other20th Century Historical Fiction - General & MiscellaneousWashington Post Best Historical Fiction of 20082009 Orange Prize ShortlistBest Books of the Year 2008Best Books of the YearWashington Post Best Books of 2008Previous Shortlists - Women's Prize for FictionWomen's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction)Fiction AwardsBritish Literary Awards



