The Good Mayor - Softcover

Nicoll, Andrew

3.4

928 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385343124 ISBN 13: 9780385343121

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2009

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In a busy little city in a forgotten corner of the Baltic, in an office on the square, the beloved mayor of Dot lies on his office floor, peering beneath his door. Tibo Krovic has come to work from his house down at the end of a blue-tiled path. He's taken, as usual, the tram seven stops, and walked the final two. He's stopped for strong Viennese coffee. And now Tibo Krovic is looking at the perfectly beautiful feet of his voluptuous, unhappily married secretary, Mrs. Agathe Stopak. The Good Mayor is badly in love.

And over the course of days, months, and years, amid life's daily routine--a fallen lunch pail, a single touch . . . a handwritten note and then a terrible choice--he and Agathe must come to terms with this thing that has seized hold of them both, exploring the tastes of desire and despair, love, friendship, and betrayal. . . . Until fate, magic, and their own actions lift them from their moorings--toward an utterly unexpected future.
Their tortuous road to bliss is fraught with phantom circus performers, malevolent painters, rotund lawyers, mysterious fortune-tellers--and every single one of love's astonishing little cruelties and miracles.

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"A literary novel and gorgeously written, old-fashioned romance." --Australian Women's Weekly

"An exuberant, whirlwind read." --Guardian

"Whimsical and charming." --Australian

"One of the best books I have ever read--it had humour and lightness of touch that hooked me from the first page to the last."--Daily Telegraph

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