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  • Published: 15 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028390
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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Bar Balto




A super-cool whodunnit from the young French Algerian literary star.

Joël, aka 'The Rink' (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. There are so many suspects, it's not so much a question of who did kill him as who didn't.

There's Magalie, the temperamental teenager obsessed with Paris Hilton; her troublemaker boyfriend, Tani; Tani's mother, Madame Levi; her unemployed, daytime-TV addicted husband; Yeznig, their younger son, who has learning difficulties but perfect memory recall; and newcomers Ali and Nadia, the Muslim twins struggling to fit in.

As the tension mounts and we're still none the wiser, the ending is as tragic as it is unexpected.

  • Published: 15 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028390
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
Categories:

About the author

Faiza Guéne

Faiza Guene was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. She wrote her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow, when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies and translation rights around the world, and was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2006 and longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007. Her other novels are Dreams from the Endz and, most recently, Bar Balto.

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