Invisible Things
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Particular thanks are due to Felicity Pors at the Niels Bohr Archive, who told me the story of Hevesy’s cats that prompted me to get hold of Hevesy’s delightfully titled collection of scientific papers, Adventures in Radioisotope Research, and to the friends who made my northern travels so pleasurable, especially Troy Selvaratnam, Vijai Maheshwari, and Tarvo Varres. Brent Buckner hosted much of the writing, kept me more or less sane in times of adversity, and gave useful comments on several rounds of draft. My father, Ian Davidson, offered scientific fact-checking at various stages. The book benefited immeasurably from editorial comments from Zareen Jaffery and Ruth Katcher. Thanks, too, to Kathleen Anderson, Liz Gately, and others at Anderson Literary Management. So many friends, family members, and students facilitated the writing of the book in one way or another that I really cannot begin to list them here, but I am immensely grateful for their contributions, and for the work of everyone at Harper-Teen. Finally, I would like to thank the bloggers who greeted The Explosionist with such enthusiasm and asked for the sequel. I hope Invisible Things will meet or exceed their expectations.
The original inspiration for this story was Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow-Queen,” a tale I have loved ever since I first encountered it as a small child reading Andrew Lang’s The Pink Fairy Book. Go and read it if you have not already!
About the Author
Jenny Davidson is a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. She has written an adult novel, several books of nonfiction, and the explosionist, a novel for teens. She lives in New York City. You can visit her online at www.jennydavidson.blogspot.com.
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Invisible Things
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davidson, Jenny.
Invisible things / Jenny Davidson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: The explosionist.
Summary: In an alternate 1930s Europe, sixteen-year-old Sophie and Mikael, now more than a friend, investigate her parents’ death, setting off a chain of events that unravels everything she thought she knew about her family, and involving them in international intrigue and the development of the atomic bomb.
ISBN 978-0-06-123978-6
[1. Family—Fiction. 2. Orphans—Fiction. 3. Scientists—Fiction. 4. Atomic bomb—Fiction. 5. Bohr, Niels, 1885–1962—Fiction. 6. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833–1896—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D28314Inv 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2010007032
CIP
AC
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First Edition
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062025128
10 11 12 13 14 CG/RRDB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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