At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
126 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2003
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ISBN: 9781400095094
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 28 December 2004
Description
In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute’s Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.