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Pascali's Island

Barry Unsworth

A Turkish spy for twenty years, Basil Pascali is puzzled by the arrival of a mysterious Englishman posing as an archaeologist, and wends his way into the heart of the woman for whom Pascali pines.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1997
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.06in - 5.56in - 0.46in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9780393317213
  • Categories: Historical - General

About the Author

Unsworth, Barry: - Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.

Praise for this book

A compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule.-- "Boston Sunday Globe"
Darkly ironic. . . . Offers an almost Conradian richness.-- "The New Yorker"