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Lyrical and moving novel about true love, loss, magic and friendship.
Bantam
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0385343124
EAN: 9780385343121
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Women's Fiction
In a busy little city in a forgotten corner of the Baltic,
in an office on the square, the beloved mayor of Dot lies
on his office floor, peering beneath his door. Tibo Krovic
has come to work from his house down at the end of a blue-
tiled path. He’s taken, as usual, the tram seven stops,
and walked the final two. He’s stopped for strong Viennese
coffee. And now Tibo Krovic is looking at the perfectly
beautiful feet of his voluptuous, unhappily married
secretary, Mrs. Agathe Stopak. The Good Mayor is badly in
love. And over the course of days, months, and years, amid
life’s daily routine—a fallen lunch pail, a single
touch . . . a handwritten note and then a terrible choice—
he and Agathe must come to terms with this thing that has
seized hold of them both, exploring the tastes of desire
and despair, love, friendship, and betrayal. . . . Until
fate, magic, and their own actions lift them from their
moorings—toward an utterly unexpected future. Their tortuous road to bliss is fraught with phantom
circus performers, malevolent painters, rotund lawyers,
mysterious fortune-tellers—and every single one of love’s
astonishing little cruelties and miracles.
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