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Item Details
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THE ABYSSINIAN
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| By: |
Jean-Christophe Rufin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330393871 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330393874 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
10 November, 2000 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A huge international bestseller |
| Synopsis: |
Jean-Christophe Rufin yokes the elegant language of the French enlightenment with the storytelling of Alexandre Dumas to create a splendid parable of liberty, religious fanaticism and the possibility of happiness. 'Set in 1700, towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, it follows the fortunes of a brave apothecary, a talented but unofficial doctor, who is talked into leading an embassy from Cairo to Ethiopia ...Rufin maintains a perfect balance between impatient detachment and compassionate curiosity. The Abyssinian, like Thackeray's Vanity Fair, carries the weight of history with good-humoured finesse' The Times 'An ambitious first novel, dashing, abundant and, when necessary, vividly theatrical' Times Literary Supplement '[A] remarkably assured first novel ...Rufin's writing is elegantly readable' Independent 'It is old-fashioned enough to be delightful, and new enough to be moving' Glasgow Herald 'Rufin offers the reader at least three different novels in the space of a single book: a tale of diplomatic intrigue, a voyage of discovery to a virtually unknown civilisation, and a chronicle of the adventures and loves of his irrepressible hero' Daily Telegraph |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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