Summary
Arab Jazz: A Parisian Murder Mystery
Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where multicultural citizens live, love and worship alongside one another. This peace is shattered when Ahmed Taroudant’s melancholy daydreams are interrupted by the blood dripping from his upstairs neighbour’s brutally mutilated corpse.
The violent murder of Laura Vignole, and the pork joint placed next to her, set imaginat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848664395 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848664397 |
| Author: | Sam Gordon, Karim Miské |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 125mm x 18mm |
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A brilliant debut - The Guardian
Exciting, informative, stimulating, and a little frightening - The TimesNot to be missed - The TabletFirst time novelist Miske, a filmmaker in his native France, offers up a poetic take on the traditional noir thriller which is one for crime fiction fans looking for something different to the usual tales of cops and robbers. - Dubbo WeekenderAbout The Author
Sam Gordon
Karim Miske (Author)
Born in 1964 in Abidjan to a Mauritanian father and a French mother, Karim Miske grew up in Paris before leaving to study journalism in Dakar. He now lives in France and is making documentary films on a wide range of subjects including deafness, for which he learned sign language, and the common roots between the Jewish and Islamic religions. Arab Jazz is the author’s first novel.
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