Bombay Ice - Brossura

Forbes, Leslie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553380478 ISBN 13: 9780553380477

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1999

Riassunto

A disturbing letter from her sister, married to a famed Bombay film director, draws London journalist Rosalind Bengal back to her native India, where a series of strange and chaotic events threatens her life and takes her back into the dark patterns of her lost past. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"A riveting murder mystery...complex and vastly entertaining...the toughest, most sympathetic heroine since Smilla's Sense of Snow."
--Harper's Bazaar

"A brainy thriller."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Lavish and sexy...Conveys a sense of India so rich that it ceases to seem a mere country."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Fans of An Instance of the Fingerpost will find Forbes' debut novel an equally intricate literary thriller suffused with exotic atmosphere."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Thrilling...a breathtaking read."
--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Forbes pushes the thriller genre to its limits....Enormous fun and truly chilling."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Bombay comes alive in these pages....Wild, extravagant...unpredictable."
--Newsday

"A remarkable and clever debut."
--The Washington Post

L'autore:

Leslie Forbes is the author of four award-winning travel books and the internationally bestselling novels Bombay Ice, a Sunday Times bestseller, and Fish, Blood & Bone, which was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553380478
• ISBN 13: 9780553380477
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 394