Cabaret: A Roman Riddle
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struggling mortician in working-class Rome, Freda only married her repulsive ventriloquist husband, Alberto, because it was prophesied that she'd do so. Now that he's vanished mysteriously along with his equally abhorrent dummy (who Freda suspects is actually a midget), she'd like them both to stay missing -- though she's devastated by the simultaneous disappearance of her soul mate, Pierino, her beloved talking parrot. While the police investigate this series of possible crimes, Freda will continue embalming by day, unleashing her caged passions at night in a seedy cabaret (until a tragic fire leaves the proprietor with a tuba
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Release date: 27 June 2006
ISBN-10 : 0060772581 | ISBN-13: 9780060772581
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Release date: 27 June 2006
ISBN-10 : 0060772581 | ISBN-13: 9780060772581