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From the author of the New York Times bestselling series, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, comes a collection of short stories that have readers visiting in on romantic encounters in exotic locales around the globe In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters, readers will be enthralled, saddened, inspired, and surprised by the encounters they witness. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves—entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated, and sometimes, completely disastrous. This is an exceptional collection of stories from an author whose rapidly growing audience delights in his extraordinary imagination and delicious insights into the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition.
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Alexander McCall Smith is best known for his internationally acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has now been translated into 45 languages, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and is the basis of an HBO series.
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Smith, author of the bestselling The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and some 50 other books, nimbly examines the mysteries of dating in this captivating collection. The stories, which take place in various locales-Africa, Australia, Italy-and in periods from the 1950s and '60s to today, explore the timeless, intricate dance of love and courtship, and make wise, often compassionate observations. In the lovely title story, a young woman summering in Tuscany has an assignation with an angel ("It may be unusual in other places, but here, there seemed nothing extraordinary about it") and finds herself pregnant with a miraculous child. In the arch "Intimate Accounts," the protagonist, a jaded psychiatrist, noting that "terrible things can happen on dates-traumatic things-which can trouble people to the very depths of their psyches," helps a narcissistic patient discover that his best date might be with himself. Two members of a "dating [service] for fatties" share a comic dinner in "Fat Date"; two wealthy Swiss singles make friends with the younger generation and learn the joys of sharing in "Wonderful Date," while in "Maternal Influence," a young man mollycoddled and emasculated by his mother, "the Mayoress," finally takes a stand when he meets a girl he likes. Smith's nine stories, with their light humor and touching moments, should inspire smiles and sighs in tenderhearted readers everywhere.
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2022
- ISBN 10 1841954276
- ISBN 13 9781841954271
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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