Titel: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (The Sunday Philosophy Club)
Författare: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN: 9780349119175
Handling: Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of w here she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with pa nache and conviction, but real life is...well, perhaps a bit more chal lenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a youn ger man who should have married her niece, Cat. Jamie's handsomeness l eaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy, and ethically disturbed. 'I am a philosopher', she thinks, 'but I am also a woman'. And more disturb ance is in store. When Cat takes a break in Italy, Isabel agrees to ru n her delicatessen. One of the customers, she discovers, has recently had a heart transplant and is now being plagued by memories that canno t be rationally explained and which he feels do not belong to him. Isa bel is intrigued. So intrigued that she finds herself rushing headlong into a dangerous investigation. But she still has time to think about the things that possess her - things like love and friendship, and, o f course, temptation. The last of these comes in many forms - chocolat e, for example, or seductive Italians...
Antal sidor: 297
Inkommen: 2007-03-03
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