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The World and All That It Holds (Paperback)
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Loot Price R285
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You Save R80 (22%)
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'A staggering work of beauty and brutality' - Douglas Stuart As the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914,
Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the
counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not
quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student
days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum, a
summer stroll and idle fantasies can't put in perspective. And then
the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall
flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they
have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the
attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to
complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic
storyteller and Pinto's protector and lover. Together, Pinto and
Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with
spies and Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across
deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is
Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive. 'This life-stuffed
novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell
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