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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel
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'For the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), Harry Khan, a nemesis from his school days, arrives in town.
Khan has also become enraptured with Rose and announces his intent to invite her to the Ball. Rather than force Rose to choose between the two men, a clever solution is proposed. Whoever can identify the most species of birds in one week’s time gets the privilege of asking Ms. Mbikwa to the ball.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Bernadette

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      Viking ,
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      Extent: 201p.
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      • Published: 28th July 2008
      ISBN: 0670917575 (hbk.), 9780670917570 (hbk.)
    • Boston, Massachusetts,
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      Houghton Mifflin ,
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      • Published September 18th 2008
      ISBN: 9780547152585
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      Penguin ,
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      Extent: 1v.p.
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      ISBN: 9780141035963
Alternative title: Kleine Vogelkunde Ostafrikas : roman
Language: German
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      Kindler ,
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      Extent: 285p.
      ISBN: 9783463405544

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  • Large print.
  • Sound recording.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Finding Fiction in Facts David Curry , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 3 January 2010; (p. 19)
[Review] A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Susan Gorgioski , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 56)

— Review of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel
Displaced and Elsewhere Cath Kenneally , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 3 no. 9 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel ; Twilight Azhar Abidi , 2008 single work novel
When Worlds Collide Katharine England , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 August 2008; (p. 12)

— Review of Twilight Azhar Abidi , 2008 single work novel ; A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel
A Bird in the Hand Gia Metherell , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 August 2008; (p. 11)
When Worlds Collide Katharine England , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 August 2008; (p. 12)

— Review of Twilight Azhar Abidi , 2008 single work novel ; A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel
Displaced and Elsewhere Cath Kenneally , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 3 no. 9 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel ; Twilight Azhar Abidi , 2008 single work novel
[Review] A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Susan Gorgioski , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 56)

— Review of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel Nicholas Drayson , 2008 single work novel
A Bird in the Hand Gia Metherell , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 August 2008; (p. 11)
Finding Fiction in Facts David Curry , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 3 January 2010; (p. 19)
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