Review
''Everything about [McCall Smith] is appealing. He''s just full of
delight - it just bubbles out of him'' SUNDAY HERALD ''Indeed, the
effort involved would have been justified by just one of them, THE
NO.1 LADIES'' DETECTIVE AGENCY'' Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the 1999
BOOKER Prize Jury ''A rare pleasure'' DAILY TELEGRAPH ''A publishing
phenomenon'' GUARDIAN
Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph
The author''s prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and
precision. --This text refers to an o
內容簡介:
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith''s widely acclaimed
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the
delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who
is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their
lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in
Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a
con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at
her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old
boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. The No. 1 Ladies''
Detective Agency received two Booker Judges'' Special
Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the
Year and the Millennium by the "Times Literary Supplement."
關於作者:
Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at
Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe
and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of
over fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including specialist
titles such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep and The Criminal Law of
Botswana, children''s books such as The Perfect Hamburger, and a
collection of stories called Portuguese Irregular Verbs. --This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.