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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.     Subjects     Antiquities -- Egyptian -- Fiction.     London (England) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.       by title:      Pianos and flowers :...         MARC Display

Pianos and flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind / Alexander McCall Smith. by McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2019] Subjects Antiquities -- Egyptian -- Fiction.   London (England) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593315750 (hardcover) : 0593315758 (hardcover) : Description:  ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First United States edition. Contents:  Pianos and flowers -- I'd cry buckets -- Sphinx -- Maternal designs -- The dwarf tale-teller of the Romanian Rom -- Duty -- Iron jelloids -- Students -- Zeugma -- Urchins -- St. John's wort -- Blackmail -- Pogo sticks and man with bicycle -- La plage. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbors caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realize that these photographs speak volumes"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Bookmobile Adult Fiction McCall Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList         Add Copy to MyList

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