A01=Luis Fernando Verissimo
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Luis Fernando Verissimo
automatic-update
B06=Margaret Jull Costa
Brazil
Brazilian fiction
Category1=Fiction
Category=FF
Category=FYT
COP=United Kingdom
damsel in distress
dark humour
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Don Quixote
eq_bestseller
eq_crime
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
gansters
Language_English
light hearted fiction
Monty Python
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
quirky satire
satire
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780857051141
- Weight: 124g
- Dimensions: 154 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help? One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.
Luís Fernando Veríssimo is a satirist, cartoonist, translator, television writer, saxophonist, playwright and novelist. With over sixty published titles, he is one of the most popular of contemporary Brazilian writers.
