Publisher's Synopsis
Herein is preserved all that remains of an entire culture, fragments salvaged from the ruins of the Perdu Library by ex-President Perdu himself. About Perdu little is known, and still less about the destruction of the Library. That he was ambitious, that he liked power, that he wished to perpetuate himself and therefore gathered all the books of his republic into one vast library, that he had literary pretensions these are all the known facts.
