The Mission Song

Author: John Le Carre

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Price : 28.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780733622434
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.172365
Publication date : July 2007
Dimensions : 2.5 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
Produced in : Australia
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Dewey classification : 823/.914
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Pages : 384
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Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. First published 2006.

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