Little Bee / Chris Cleave.
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: 271 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1416589635
- 9781416589631
- 9781416589648 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Cleave, Chris | Available | 33111005034158 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller and book club favorite from Chris Cleave.
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton."
Includes bibliographical references.
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.