| Edition |
First Harper Perennial edition. |
| Description |
131 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 2004: New York: Fourth Estate. |
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Includes an additional 14-page section titled "P.S. insights, interviews, & more." |
| Summary |
Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion : an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance both more prosaic and far more sinister? |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- England -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| ISBN |
0060777109 |
| Standard No. |
9780060777104 |
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