The Knowledge of Water - Softcover

Smith, Sarah

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ISBN 10: 0099410834 ISBN 13: 9780099410836

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 2000

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The year is 1910 and the river Seine has overflowed its banks. A prostitute known as Mona Lisa has been murdered whilst someone is out to steal the painting of the same name. This novel brings together forgery, sex, love and murder.

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About the Author:

Sarah Smith grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived in Japan, London, and Paris. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Graduate School, where she got her Ph.D. in English. A former manager at a computer firm, Smith--who was also a Fulbright Fellow at the Slade Film School, University of London--has taught film and eighteenth-century literature at Tufts University, Boston University, and Northeastern University.

Smith's critically acclaimed first novel, The Vanished Child, was selected by the New York Times as one of the nine best mysteries of 1992 and has appeared on local, regional, and national bestseller lists. It has become an all-time bestseller at one of San Francisco's leading bookstores, outselling The Bridges of Madison County and The Firm&l

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