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You can't keep a good man down . . . even when he's dead! When an American mother and ex-journalist is overwhelmed by her new Swiss home, a visitor pops out of nowhere offering to relieve her son's asthma, her husband's distracted absence and her problems grappling with village life. Is he the village crackpot or - as he claims - the Greatest Mind of the Eighteenth Century? This talkative character in kneebreeches and a powdered wig is the last straw. Though she begs him to disappear, he unpacks his moldy trunk and a lifetime of stories instead. Slowly "V." becomes her stalwart best friend as they laugh, bicker and he teaches her the best lesson of all: how to live life to its fullest.
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Dinah Lee Küng worked for twenty years as a journalist in Asia, notably China, for Business Week, The Economist, The International Herald Tribune, and The Washington Post.
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--"In the tradition of the best self-help novels, Voltaire teaches her how to live a happy and full life," Nicholas Cronk, The Cambridge Guide to Voltaire, March 2009
--Voted second "Must Read" by UK library borrowers on World Book Day, after the winner, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, ahead of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Lovely Bones, the Bookseller of Kabul, My Sister's Keeper and the Sharpe books of Bernard Cornwell, April 2005.
--Definitely my book of the year."
Irene Double, librarian for Bradford Libraries, UK, Shelf Life--Recommended Reading Group selection, UK, Hertfordshire Libraries
Nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004
--A mix of the real and surreal, a combination of fact and fiction and a hint of the American experiencing Switzerland, written in a straightforward and entertaining style is what makes Dinah Lee Küng such an interesting writer.-- Aradhna Sethi, Swiss News, Zurich, May 2004
--Voted second "Must Read" by UK library borrowers on World Book Day, after the winner, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, ahead of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Lovely Bones, the Bookseller of Kabul, My Sister's Keeper and the Sharpe books of Bernard Cornwell, April 2005.
--Definitely my book of the year."
Irene Double, librarian for Bradford Libraries, UK, Shelf Life--Recommended Reading Group selection, UK, Hertfordshire Libraries
Nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004
--A mix of the real and surreal, a combination of fact and fiction and a hint of the American experiencing Switzerland, written in a straightforward and entertaining style is what makes Dinah Lee Küng such an interesting writer.-- Aradhna Sethi, Swiss News, Zurich, May 2004
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- PublisherOrion Publishing Group
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1870015843
- ISBN 13 9781870015844
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