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Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters
Starred Review. In Vicky Bliss's
final adventure, the art historian is reunited with her reformed art-thief
boyfriend, John Tregarth, on a mission to Egypt to help her old friend
Feisal out of a jam. Imagine the ramifications of the most iconic symbol of
your homeland going missing on your watch. Feisal finds himself in just this
situation, and it necessitates intervention by Bliss, her boss at Munich's
National Museum, and Tregarth. In addition to mystery and intrigue, the
characters embroil themselves in a philosophical/legal
discourse-turned-fracas on the repatriation of Egyptian artifacts held by
foreign museums. Armchair travelers and amateur Egyptologists alike will
enjoy Peters's expert narration, which, while never approaching the
pedantic, brings ancient Egypt to life and makes modern Egypt accessible.
And those still wondering whether the Vicky Bliss series is connected to the
Amelia Peabody series will at last find the answer here. Although this
series' entries can be enjoyed in any order, enthusiasts will find it
rewarding to reread the books from the start, beginning with Borrower of the
Night. Highly recommended for all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub
Alert, LJ 5/15/08. Ed.] Laura A.B. Cifelli, Lee Cty. P.L., Fort Myers, FL
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The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Starred Review. This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of
polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult not recognized by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon church).
Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional
narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th rebel wife of Mormon leader
Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of
fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man whose mother, another 19th
wife, is accused of murdering his polygamist father, a member of the
fundamentalist First Latter-day Saints, in Mesadale, Ariz. Excommunicated
from the church at 14, Jordan tirelessly works, with help from local
sympathizers, to unmask his father's true killer. In an author's note,
Ebershoff explains how his character differs from the actual Ann Eliza, who
published two autobiographies, the first of which helped put pressure on the
Mormon church to renounce polygamy in 1890. With the topic of plural
marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in
today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking
understanding of the subject. (Aug.) Copyright � Reed Business Information,
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul
Theroux
Starred Review. Acclaimed travel writer
and novelist Theroux hasn't lost his affection for trains, but his view
of the scenery outside has darkened in his latest odyssey. Reprising the
itinerary of his 1973 The Great Railway Bazaar (with a detour around
Iran and Afghanistan into the Central Asian republics), Theroux takes a
contrarian stance toward the transformation of Asia over the intervening
decades. The persistence of familiar, authentic, rural decrepitude
usually heartens him, while the teeming modernity of great cities the
computer-and-oxcart madhouses of Mumbai and Bangalore, the neurotic
orderliness of Singapore, the soullessness of Tokyo appalls. The book is
often an elegy for fixity in a globalizing age when everyone is a
traveler anxious to get to America and the world is deteriorating and
shrinking to a ball of bungled desolation. Fortunately, Theroux is too
rapt an observer of his surroundings and himself to wallow long in
reaction or nostalgia; readers will find his usual wonderfully evocative
landscapes and piquant character sketches (and, everywhere, prostitutes
soliciting him most stylishly in Hanoi, where they ride up on
motorcycles crying, You come! Boom-boom!). No matter where his journey
takes him, Theroux always sends back dazzling post cards. (Aug.)
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