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Jody Shields

The Fig Eater [Second Hand]

The Fig Eater [Second Hand]

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This is a second hand book. We do our best to describe our book's conditions but due to the volume we handle and the nature of second-hand books, if condition is important to you, we recommend asking for further details and pictures. Just let us know, we're always happy to help!

Condition: EX-LIBRARY. Minor wear overall. Edge/surface wear. Cracked hinged (signs of repair with tape/glue)

The Fig Eater

A dark, multi-layered, mesmerizing literary novel of suspense, superstition and latent eroticism set in fin-de-siécle Vienna.

He watches her eating one fig, then two more, grinding the seeds between her teeth, the sound echoing in her head, perhaps the last sound Dora heard before there was the thunder of blood in her ears...

Vienna, 1910. On a warm August night, the body of a young girl is discovered in the city's celebrated Volksgarten. She has been strangled. Using the latest forensic methods and psychological thinking, the Chief Inspector of Police begins his painstaking search for the killer. He is not alone, however. His wife Erszébet - an exotic, passionate woman steeped in the folk tales and Gypsy lore of her native Hungary - becomes obsessed with the dead girl. In secret, and enlisting the help of a young English governess, she conducts her own investigation of the murder, guided by intuition, instinct and superstition...
With its beautifully-evoked setting of Vienna just prior to the Great War, a city embracing the modern and yet in thrall to superstition and prejudice, and riven by corruption, perverse sexual practices and disease, The Fig Eater is a rich and seductive period page-turner of a novel.

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  • Author/Editor: Jody Shields
  • Barcode/IBSN: 0385601557
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 0.46 kg - 155 x 235 x 25 mm

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