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Manuscript found in Accra

Coelho, Paulo. (Author). Costa, Margaret Jull, (trans.).

Summary: Set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades. Christians, Arabs, and Jews have long lived together harmoniously. They are now being warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction. Contemplating their demise, the community assembles to seek the counsel of a Greek Copt. The novel unfolds as a sequence of parables on love, faith, sex, friendship, loyalty, beauty, and more.

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  • ISBN: 9780385349833 (hc.) :
  • ISBN: 0385349831 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 190 p. ; 20 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Amercian ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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General Note:
"Originally published in Brazil as Manuscrito encantrado em Accra by Sextante, Rio de Janeiro, in 2012"--T.p. verso.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Translation of: Manuscrito encontrado em Accra.
Language Note:
Translated from the Portuguese.

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Subject: Copts -- Fiction
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Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Parables.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Portage la Prairie Regional Library.

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