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Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle
by Kerr, Peter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585745480
- ISBN 13
- 9781585745487
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UNKNO, 7/1/2002 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Good. 1.0000 in x 9.0984 in x 5.9016 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .
Synopsis
'Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and Snowball Oranges.It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and 'experiences', and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners.However, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain. Full of life and colour, hilarious and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.By the same author: Manana Manana and Thistle Soup.
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- Title
- Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle
- Author
- Kerr, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1585745480
- ISBN 13
- 9781585745487
- Publisher
- UNKNO
- Place of Publication
- Guilford, Ct, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 7/1/2002 12:00:01 AM
- Size
- 1.0000 in x 9.0984 in x 5.9016 i
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- 1.2000 lb
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