by Alexander McCall Smith · Edicions La Campana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495616494
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«Llàgrimes de girafa» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Edicions La Campana in paperback (320 pages, in Catalan).
The astute and cheerful detective Mma Ramotswe begins a new chapter by marrying mechanic J.L.B. Matekoni and continues solving cases across Botswana. Her growing fame brings surprising commissions, and the story offers a view of Africa that avoids the usual European clichés, with humor, warmth and great wit.
Second installment of the «La Primera Agència de Dones Detectives» series (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency), originally published as «Tears of the Giraffe» in 2000; this edition is from 2004.
For readers of crime and mystery fiction who appreciate a charismatic detective, an African setting and a warm, humorous tone.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
