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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. Heโs taken, as usual, the tram seven stops, and walked the final two. Heโs 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 lifeโs daily routineโa fallen lunch pail, a single touch . . . a handwritten note and then a terrible choiceโ 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 mooringsโtoward an utterly unexpected future. Their tortuous road to bliss is fraught with phantom circus performers, malevolent painters, rotund lawyers, mysterious fortune-tellersโand every single one of loveโs astonishing little cruelties and miracles.
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