Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America [2011] paperback Condition:Good The death of a Chinese

The death of a Chinese immigrant

Meanwhile her old adversary

Electrifying and filled with masterful suspense

and monsters ranging from the many-headed Scylla to the cannibalistic Cyclops Polyphemus - only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife Penelope's suitors

From an early age

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America [2011] paperback Condition:Good The death of a ChineseOlivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution Parrot is sent with him, as spy,