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Forbes, Leslie Bombay Ice
Bantam Books 1999 0553380478 / 9780553380477 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's initials in book front. Previous owner's name label (small) in book front on blank page (Vicky Soliman - Crest Hill, Illinois). NO tears inside book. 394 pages. From Publishers Weekly Fans of An Instance of the Fingerpost will find Forbes's debut novel an equally intricate literary thriller suffused with exotic atmosphere. The distinctive element here is not historical but cultural and climatic: the imminent arrival of the monsoon in Bombay, India, is juxtaposed with the escalating tension as protagonist Roz Bengal (aka Rosalind Benegal), a London-based radio producer and filmer of crime videos for TV, races to find a murderer before she and her sister Miranda suffer the consequences. Born in India and named by her pedant father after Shakespeare's heroine (one of many such allusions to the Bard), Roz has returned after a long absence, summoned by a cryptic note from a pregnant Miranda hinting that her husband, famed film producer Prosper Sharma, murdered his first wife, an aging movie star who was proving an impediment to his movie of The Tempest. The death of several hijras (eunuchs who are transvestites) is the first clue to Roz that her brother-in-law is connected to the criminal underworld, to corrupt government officials and to a disreputable forger of coins and antiques. As her investigation proceeds, Roz has opportunities to discourse about the science of weather prediction, the chemical properties of poison, the art of gilding and the technique of lost wax casting, among other esoteric subjects. With her swimmer's shoulders, grunge haircut and insouciant attitude, Roz is a quixotic heroine: reckless and full of bluff and bravado, she is also a two-fisted and indiscriminate drinker and a woman who allows herself to be abused during sex. The reasons for her self-destructive behavior do not become completely clear until the end of the novel, but meanwhile there is plenty of violence and gore (including ritual torture and a bucket of blood), plus betrayals, chases, a striking cobra and lots of red herrings. The drawback to the digression-prone narrative is a loss of tension: the threat of murder almost becomes secondary to the flow of information on the seamy side of the "Bollywood" film industry, the quotidian reality of high-level corruption in government and the wretched lives of India's masses. Yet it's this bombardment of rich detail that makes the story interesting, augmented by Forbes's striking imagery and a progression of colorful and eccentric characters. Major ad/promo; rights sold in Holland, Germany, Italy and Sweden; audio rights to Soundelux Audio. (July) FYI: A Canadian who attended London's Royal College of Art, Forbes is a travel and food writer (A Table in Tuscany) and produces shows for BBC's Radio 4. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Forbes, Leslie Fish, Blood and Bone
Farrar Straus & Giroux 2001 0374155062 / 9780374155063 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Like-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First American Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 436 pages. Map endpapers. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis: Three families across two centuries. A shared history of love and murder.And one woman’s passion for life and obsession with death. . . Expatriate Claire Fleetwood is a forensic photographer adept at turning the bones of the dead into silvery, telling shadows. When she inherits an estate situated in London’s East End, Claire finally feels rooted. Then one morning a friend is murdered beyond the walls of her garden--a crime that unnerves her, intrigues her, and compels her to unravel not only the mysteries of the victim’s past but her own past as well. It’s a journey that takes Claire to the India of her forebears, to a hidden paradise between Bhutan and Tibet, and to a secret history that reverberates through time, through blood, through a lineage of forbidden pleasures and harrowing implications. A sensuous and revealing thriller like no other, Fish, Blood and Bone is an intoxicating reflection on the consequences of the past, of unearthed skeletons and family sins, played out against the most exotic landscapes on earth and the most unsettling corners of the imagination.
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