A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

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A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
92,50 lei

Categorii: Diverse, Diverse, Macmillan Distribution

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2012

Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 384

ISBN: 9781408825204

Dimensiuni: l: 13.4cm | H: 21.6cm

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A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
92,50 lei

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It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home are less clear-cut. As they attempt to navigate their new home and are met with resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her book, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar...In present-day London another story is beginning. Frieda, a young woman adrift in her own life, opens her front door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone, leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird and a line of Arabic script. Tayeb, who has fled to England from Yemen, has arrived on Frieda's doorstep just as she learns that she is the next-of-kin to a dead woman she has never heard of: a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises - among them an ill-tempered owl. The two wanderers begin an unlikely friendship as their worlds collide, and they embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva's. A stunning debut peopled by unforgettable characters, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar is an extraordinary story of inheritance and the search for .

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