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Montaigu (de)
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Fiction
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2012
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Fayard
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French
β 415 KB
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Zanzibar
β Scribed by Foden, Giles
- Book ID
- 109000294
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780571267361
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β¦ Synopsis
'Zanzibar . . . The name itself, languid and conspiratorial, was a kind of illusion. It seemed to speak of the heart's desire, of that yearning for paradise which is itself a sign we are fallen - that we are in the dirty realm of history, of actuality, of fact.'
The year is 1998. Nick Karolides is a marine biologist working on coral reef protection off Zanzibar - the East African island of slaves, sultans and spices that for centuries has signified both the exotic and the malevolent. On a trip to the Tanzanian capital of Dar-es-Salaam he meets Miranda Powers, an American who works in the US embassy there. Together they find themselves embroiled in a terrorist conspiracy, one with which CIA veteran Jack Queller has an ancient connection.
In Zanzibar , Giles Foden draws on current events in order to create a contemporary historical novel of dazzling virtuosity. Both an investigation of the idea of paradise and a powerfully dramatic political...
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