Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly, all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about the beloved Bear, who is no longer lighting up their work lives. Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados de Barba - The Daring Soldiers of Barba have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal, backward, and windblown that you couldn't give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents claimed by the sob suddenly dry up? A droll, playful novel set in an alternative past on a fictional European peninsula,The new republic is a fast paced, plot-driven thriller. Addressing weighty issues like terrorism with a deft, tongue in cheek touch, Shriver presses the more intimate question: What makes charismatic people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? What's their secret? And in the end, who has the better life the admired, or the admirer?
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BIGW_8270751
? Product Height (cm)
23.4
? Product Width (cm)
15.3
? Age Rating
G
? Author
Lionel Shriver
? Country Of Origin
Australia
? Format
Paperback
? Genre
Fiction
? Number of Pages
384
? Published
20/03/2012
? Publisher
HarperCollins
? Delivery Type
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