Mrs. Alis unpassende Leidenschaft: Roman (German Edition)
Ernest Pettigrew, ob seiner militärischen Vergangenheit von allen nur ‚Major’ genannt, ist Brite durch und durch und pflegt Probleme jedweder Art mit einer guten Tasse Tee zu behandeln. Als der Witwer nun auch noch den Tod seines Bruders zu betrauern hat, rückt sein zurückgezogenes Leben ins...
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Ernest Pettigrew, ob seiner militärischen Vergangenheit von allen nur ‚Major’ genannt, ist Brite durch und durch und pflegt Probleme jedweder Art mit einer guten Tasse Tee zu behandeln. Als der Witwer nun auch noch den Tod seines Bruders zu betrauern hat, rückt sein zurückgezogenes Leben ins Zentrum des dörflichen Interesses – wie unpassend, dass er sich gerade jetzt mit der pakistanischen Ladenbesitzerin Mrs. Ali anfreundet.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9783426414316
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Knaur eBook
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary
A pleasant, well-written, if sometimes heavy-handed, story of love and romance after 60. That sounds a bit milquetoast, but that's not what the book is; it may not have stirred my soul, but it was easy to pick up and hard to put down. Small village, small minds, race relations and a dying class...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson Paperback, Large Print, 585 pages Published December 1st 2010 by Large Print Press (first published 2010) ISBN: 1594134448 (ISBN13: 9781594134449) I was not sure I would like this one; but once I started following Major Pettigrew's character in...
As an American it's easy to be offended by this book--much of the descriptions are not complimentary, and are, on the whole, stereotypical. Considering the author has lived in America for the past 20 years I find it hard to believe that she can't at least tolerate us. That being said, the point of ...
Major Pettigrew, sixty-eight and a widower, has just learned that his younger brother has died of a heart attack when Mrs. Ali, a Pakistani widow and shop owner, rings the doorbell because he has forgotten to leave the newspaper money for the paper boy. When he becomes rather faint, she holds him up...
This was a good book, a gentle literary fiction. The protagonist, Major Pettigrew, is a retired army major, living in a small English village, in the house built by his ancestors. Widowed several years ago, he lives quietly, in peace with his neighbors, until his younger brother dies in the beginnin...
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