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Cairo

✍ Scribed by Chris Womersley

Book ID: 111988606
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 178 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781922072672

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, seventeen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by the eccentric musician Max Cheever, his beautiful wife Sally, and their close-knit circle of painters and poets.

As Tom falls under the sway of his charismatic older friends, he enters a bohemian world of parties and gallery openings. Soon, however, he is caught up in more sinister events involving deception and betrayal, not to mention one of the greatest unsolved art heists of the twentieth century: the infamous theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman.

Set among the demimonde — where nothing and nobody is as they seem — Cairo is a novel about growing up, the perils of first love, and finding one's true place in the world.

PRAISE FOR CHRIS WOMERSLEY

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