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A cutting, comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, from an award-winning young Spanish writer
Metropolitan Books
June 2006
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Featuring: Moises Froissard
272 pages
ISBN: 0805077812
EAN: 9780805077810
Hardcover
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To save lives and get handsomely paid for it--what job
could be more rewarding? Moises Froissard has found the
career opportunity of his dreams. After a start as a
conventional bleeding heart with an idealistic aid group,
he quickly wises up to the harsh reality of a world in
which human life is just another product in a competitive
marketplace. Now he travels the globe on the trail of
illegal immigrants, refugees, and other ordinary souls
brought low by war, natural disaster, or economic
collapse. Scouting the slums and gutters of the world,
Moises's task is to unearth nature's most beautiful men,
women, and children and save them--for Club Olympus, a top-
price international sex club.
Then Moises receives
his toughest assignment yet: to find a "Nubian prince," an
African illegal caught fleetingly in the pages of a glossy
magazine. The man is so painfully desirable that Club
Olympus will sacrifice anything to have him--even Moises
himself. Our narrator begins the chase, dazed,
prevaricating, self-obsessed, funny, a little cruel, a
little sentimental.
The Nubian Prince takes
place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do
anything to become haves, while the privileged don't know
what to live for. Hilarious, moving, sexually explosive,
and deeply disturbing, this bestselling Spanish novel
introduces a new European star.
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