The little book
The extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burder, California exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 Wheeler Burder is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he - still his modern self - is wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well, fin de siecle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one...