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  • Published: 31 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141903811
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Soul Tourists

From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other




A funny, fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventures across Europe

The funny and fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventure into European history...

It is 1988, and Jessie, artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver, meets Stanley, angst-ridden banker and boffin. Jessie arrives like a guardian angel and lifts Stanley out of his soul-less life. He ditches his job, and together they set off across Europe. Destination -- unknown. Duration -- indeterminate. So begins an odyssey which turns into an adventure on the stage of European history featuring Shakespeare's "dark lady of the sonnets", Pushkin's African great-grandfather, the composer Chevalier de St. Georges and other colourful characters from Europe's past.

  • Published: 31 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141903811
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of Lara, winner of the Emma Best Book Award in 1999, The Emperor's Babe and Soul Tourists. She is a former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, and her work has been widely anthologized. She won a prestigious Arts Council Writers Award in 2000.

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