Blue Shoes and Happiness - Brossura

McCall Smith, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0676976255 ISBN 13: 9780676976250

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2007

Riassunto

In this seventh installment in the internationally bestselling, universally beloved series, there is considerable excitement at the shared premises of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.

A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe’s office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there. And it looks as though Aunty Emang, the advice columnist in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems.

It all means a lot of work for Mma Ramotswe and her inestimable assistant, Grace Makutsi, and they are, of course, up to the challenge. But there’s trouble brewing in Mma Makutsi’s own life. Her greedy uncles are demanding an extra-large bride price from her well-to-do fiancé, a man of substance, Phuti Radiphuti, and though money may buy her that fashionably narrow (and uncomfortable) pair of blue shoes, it won’t buy her the happiness that Mma Ramotswe promises her she’ll find in simpler things – in contentment with the world and enough tea to smooth over the occasional bumps in the road.
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Recensione:

“Once again, McCall Smith skilfully – yet, charmingly – navigates the boundary between natural sweetness and making your teeth hurt.... Pitched like a well-crafted pop song – cozy, resilient, as ephemeral as the morning breeze across Mma Ramotswe’s verandah on Zebra Drive – his narratives are sincerely felt and expressed, from the scrubby grassroots up.”
–The Globe and Mail

“McCall Smith understands that familiarity and even formula are no excuse for laziness. That means that Blue Shoes throws a few new existential questions into the mix, most notably this one: Is it possible for a lady – Mma Ramotswe, for example – to be too traditionally built?... The reader remembers ... the enjoyment of having spent several pleasurable hours in the company of people who by now seem like old friends.”
–Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

“A few hours spent with Precious Ramotswe and her friends is always time well spent.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Praise for In the Company of Cheerful Ladies:

· National Bestseller

“Beloved Botswana sleuth Precious Ramotswe is back – and better than ever – in this sixth entry in McCall Smith’s bestselling series. . . . By turns laugh-out-loud funny and quietly profound, these life-affirming mysteries are fine company, indeed.”
–Booklist, starred review

“Like clove oil on a bad tooth, McCall Smith’s fiction acts on cynicism as an effective, old-fashioned balm.”
–The Globe and Mail

“May be the most compelling of the lot. . . . It begins with an incident that crystallizes McCall Smith’s skill. Ultimately it is a matter of petty thievery, but his handling of it dramatizes the moral underpinnings of these books. . . . [Mma Ramotswe’s] strength – and the source of her enormous appeal – is her understanding of the human heart, and her willingness to confront its perfidies.”
–New York Daily News

“These books offer a sunnily lit window into another world, along with a modicum of relief from certain aspects of modern Western culture. They never descend into mere escapism, though. A few hours spent with Precious Ramotswe and her friends is always time well spent.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“[The] sixth entry in McCall Smith’s consistently delightful series. . . Amid the hilarious scenarios and quiet revelations are luminous descriptions of Botswana, land of wide-open spaces and endless blue skies.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review

L'autore:

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and of The Sunday Philosophy Club series. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana and at Edinburgh University. He lives in Scotland. In his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra).
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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0676976255
• ISBN 13: 9780676976250
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256