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An imperfect lens : a novel / Anne Roiphe.

Roiphe, Anne Richardson, 1935- (Author).

Summary:

Louis Thuillier arrives in 1880s Alexandria as part of an expedition searching for the source of the cholera epidemic and falls in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor, but their love is threatened by the epidemic and political unrest.

Item details

ISBN: 1400082110
ISBN: 9781400082117
Physical Description: 296 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2006.

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Subject:

French > Egypt > Fiction.
Scientists > Fiction.
Epidemics > Fiction.
Cholera > Fiction.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.
Medical novels.

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