Lin shi kong que
The casual vacancy
by J. K. Rowling and Tom Hollander
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When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
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fiction, Elecciones locales, City council members, Spanish language materials, Death, Novela, Local elections, City and town life, Ciudades y pueblos, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, psychological, England, fiction, Elections, Black humor (Literature), Englisch, Roman, Country life, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2012-10-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, English literature, Fiction, humorous, general, Vida urbanaPlaces
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Translation of: The casual vacancy.
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When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
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