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010 $a 2006034933
020 $a1590512715 (acid-free paper)
020 $a9781590512715 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM74029358
035 $a(OCoLC)74029358
035 $a(NNC)6291594
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050 00 $aPS3619.A596$bM47 2007
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100 1 $aSantoro, Lara.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006080345
245 10 $aMercy :$ba novel /$cLara Santoro.
260 $aNew York :$bOther Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a279 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Anna is an Italian-born journalist based in Nairobi, is drinking too much, missing her deadlines, and juggling two lovers: a war correspondent and a wealthy architect-turned-coffee planter. For all her flaws, Anna is passionate and fearless in her commitment to tell Africa's story whatever the personal cost. The only authority she respects is that of Mercy, the large, flamboyantly dressed Kenyan woman who ambushed Anna in a market one day and talked herself into a job as Anna's maid. While tension and misunderstanding punctuate the two women's developing relationship, a genuine connection is ultimately forged. Mercy begins to take an active role in Anna's work, leading her into Nairobi's worst slums and introducing her to Father Anselmo, a Franciscan priest as wry as he is saintly, who, in the tragic absence of life-saving drugs, is the only comfort to the dying multitudes around him."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWomen journalists$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113425
650 0 $aItalians$zKenya$vFiction.
650 0 $aFemale friendship$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103512
651 0 $aAfrica$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101346
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3619.A596$iM47 2007