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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780714531380 |
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Publisher Comments:
This is a historical detective novel that will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith.
The setting is London in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. Together with a Welsh police inspector, the successful Swedish authoress Euthanasia Bondeson goes in search of her beautiful companion, who has disappeared in the narrow streets and alleyways of London.
She meets beggars and whores, artists and society beauties, all actors on the modern city's stage in a drama of dark shadows and ever-changing desires. In this world where gender boundaries are constantly shifting, can we even tell who is a man and who is a woman? With skirts flapping, Euthanasia forges her way through this romp of a crime novel, surveying the streets that Sherlock Holmes himself would not tread until a whole generation later.
Carina Burman, PhD, a well-known novelist and assistant professor at Uppsala University, has written extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She's made a name for herself as a skillful writer of pastiche, reflecting the language and atmosphere of days gone by. In 2001, she published a biography of Fredrika Bremer. Streets of Babylonis her fifth novel.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780714531380
- Subtitle:
- A London Mystery
- Author:
- Translator:
- Death, Sarah
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Marion Boyars Publishers
- Subject:
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Subject:
- England
- Subject:
- Swedes
- Subject:
- Historical - General
- Subject:
- Mystery & Detective - Historical
- Publication Date:
- May 2008
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 7.78x5.25x.90 in. .59 lbs.










