| Waiting for Columbus Contributor(s): Trofimuk, Thomas (Author), Gardner, Grover (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1441706496 ISBN-13: 9781441706492 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Sevilla, Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that lead him to break with reality, lie at the center of this stunning, page-turning and engrossing novel. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 5.7" (0.52 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has been locked up, and to discover his true identity. Simultaneously, Emile Germain, an Interpol officer based in France, receives a memo about an enigmatic figure, possibly a dangerous assailant, who is missing from the scene of a crime. All paths lead to Spain, where Germain finds himself on a journey that seems like a wild goose chase. Unbeknownst to him as well as to the doctors at the Sevilla Institute, Emile is unraveling more than just one mystery. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trofimuk, Thomas: - Thomas Trofimuk is a writer, editor, and journalism instructor. His first novel, The 52nd Poem, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Best First Novel and the City of Edmonton Book Prize. Doubting Yourself to the Bone, his critically acclaimed second novel was a number-one bestseller (Edmonton Journal) and one of the Globe and Mail's Best Books of the Year. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife and daughter. Gardner, Grover: -Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. |