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From the twotime booker prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenthcentury america. Peter, my good friend, thought it would be a good idea to write a fictional account. It is also the story of a most unlikely friendship between a french lord and an english. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 man booker prize.
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