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An exhilarating international romp of a novel: a madcap blend of mystery, romance, and humour. A famous Brazilian novelist has disappeared. Beatriz Yagoda was last seen climbing into an almond tree, puffing on a cigar and holding a suitcase. SheΓÇÖs since vanished. Upon hearing this news, her American translator Emma, flies immediately to Brazil to join BeatrizΓÇÖs two grown children in solving the mystery of the authorΓÇÖs curious disappearance. But in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, the trio soon discovers the bizarre and troubling affairs Beatriz has left in her wake: outstanding debt from an online gambling addiction that has roused a rapacious loan shark, and the authorΓÇÖs washed-up, long-time editor who was promised a new Yagoda manuscript and is desperate to publish. Is the secret to BeatrizΓÇÖs disappearance hidden in her enigmatic novels? Funny, suspenseful, and compulsively readable, Ways to Disappear is a fabulously inventive novel about a group of unconventional characters on a trail that turns their own lives upside down.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781907970849
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 192
  • Udgivet:
  • 22. september 2016
  • Størrelse:
  • 250x132x15 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 196 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: Ukendt - mangler pt.

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An exhilarating international romp of a novel: a madcap blend of mystery, romance, and humour.

A famous Brazilian novelist has disappeared. Beatriz Yagoda was last seen climbing into an almond tree, puffing on a cigar and holding a suitcase. SheΓÇÖs since vanished. Upon hearing this news, her American translator Emma, flies immediately to Brazil to join BeatrizΓÇÖs two grown children in solving the mystery of the authorΓÇÖs curious disappearance. But in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, the trio soon discovers the bizarre and troubling affairs Beatriz has left in her wake: outstanding debt from an online gambling addiction that has roused a rapacious loan shark, and the authorΓÇÖs washed-up, long-time editor who was promised a new Yagoda manuscript and is desperate to publish. Is the secret to BeatrizΓÇÖs disappearance hidden in her enigmatic novels?

Funny, suspenseful, and compulsively readable, Ways to Disappear is a fabulously inventive novel about a group of unconventional characters on a trail that turns their own lives upside down.

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