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Eating Fire and Drinking Water - Arlene J. Chai
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Eating Fire and Drinking Water
Type : Books
SKU: VV1609897
ISBN: 9780345514776
Format: 141 x 208 x 30
Cover: Paperback
Year: 2005
Publisher: Random House (USA) (Random House (USA))
Your Price: $46.33
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Краткая аннотация:
«I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . .«Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South Seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery. Full of idealistic ambition, she grows tired of the trivial assignments she's given at the daily paper, yearning to write articles of substance. So when the tiny street of Calle de Leon bursts into flames after a student demonstration--and a soldier kills an unarmed man--Clara seizes the chance to cover the explosive story.Yet after Clara rushes to the burning street to investigate the tragedy, she discovers another, more personal one involving some remarkable truths about her unknown past--ghosts, she realizes, which have been silently pursuing her all her life. And as family secrets begin to unfold |
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