A Guide to the Birds of East AfricaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 - 201 páginas A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith's Ladies Detective series does for Botswana For the past three years, the widower Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Reserved and honorable, Malik wouldn't be noticed by a bystander in a Nairobi street--except perhaps to comment on his carefully sculpted combover. But beneath that unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. But just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), who should pop up but his nemesis from his school days. The jokester Harry Khan, good-looking in a flashy way and quick of foot, has also become enraptured with the object of Malik's affection. |
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Chapter 1 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 5 |
Chapter 3 | 11 |
Chapter 4 | 16 |
Chapter 5 | 21 |
Chapter 6 | 26 |
Chapter 7 | 31 |
Chapter 8 | 36 |
Chapter 22 | 104 |
Chapter 23 | 109 |
Chapter 24 | 114 |
Chapter 25 | 120 |
Chapter 26 | 125 |
Chapter 27 | 130 |
Chapter 28 | 136 |
Chapter 29 | 142 |
Chapter 9 | 42 |
Chapter 10 | 49 |
Chapter 11 | 54 |
Chapter 12 | 58 |
Chapter 13 | 62 |
Chapter 14 | 66 |
Chapter 15 | 70 |
Chapter 16 | 75 |
Chapter 17 | 80 |
Chapter 18 | 85 |
Chapter 19 | 90 |
Chapter 20 | 94 |
Chapter 21 | 98 |
Chapter 30 | 147 |
Chapter 31 | 152 |
Chapter 32 | 158 |
Chapter 33 | 162 |
Chapter 34 | 168 |
Chapter 35 | 172 |
Chapter 36 | 176 |
Chapter 37 | 180 |
Chapter 38 | 184 |
Chapter 39 | 189 |
Chapter 40 | 195 |