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Author Sánchez Piñol, Albert, 1965-

Title Pandora in the Congo / Albert Sánchez Piñol ; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem.

Publication Info. Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2008.
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F SANCHEZ ALBERT    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 441 pages ; 21 cm
Summary Nineteen-year-old orphan Tommy Thomson, a ghost writer struggling to make a living in WWI London, is hired to record the account of a man on trial for murdering two sons of a duke on an expedition in the Congo. Tommy spends four years writing and rewriting Marcuss tale in which the doomed brothers and their enslaved African porters turned miners encounter a subterranean race reminiscent of Vernes Morlocks.
Language Originally published in Spain in 2005 as Pandora al Congo, by Ediciones La Campana, Barcelona.
Subject British -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Diamond miners -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Diamond mines and mining -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Added Author Lethem, Mara, translator.
Added Title Pandora al Congo. English
ISBN 9781847671875 paperback
184767187X paperback
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