ISBN: 0349119821
Godina izdanja: 2006
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alexander McCall Smith - Tears of the Giraffe
Abacus, 2006
233 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency #2

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.

Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.

In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency received two Booker Judges` Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium` by the Times Literary Supplement.

Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana`s only Ladies` detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother`s pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe`s own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.


Fiction, Mystery, 0349119821