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'54

Set in former Yugoslavia in the 1950s, this is a story of intrigue, spying and paranoia, centring on the hiring of Cary Grant to play the lead role in a Yugoslav propaganda film.

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  • "Fifty-four"
  • "Fifty-four"@en
  • "Cinquantaquattro"
  • "Cincuenticuatro"
  • "Cincuenta y cuatro"@es
  • "Cincuenta y cuatro"

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  • "Wu Ming is a band of five authors who live in Bologna, Italy. Their collective nom de plume means "no name" in mandarin Chinese."
  • "Set in former Yugoslavia in the 1950s, this is a story of intrigue, spying and paranoia, centring on the hiring of Cary Grant to play the lead role in a Yugoslav propaganda film."@en
  • "In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema's glamour, but Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and begins to lay the foundation for the global heroin trade. And in Bologna, a bartender searches for true love and his missing communist father. It is 1954--the height of the Cold War--and these three are on a path toward an intersection that will involve the nascent KGB, Joseph McCarthy, Frances Farmer, Parisian lowlifes, Marshal Tito, David Niven, James Bond, and a very special television set called the McGuffin Electric. This book is a political thriller, a comic spy caper, a romance, and a social satire.--From publisher description."
  • "In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema's glamour, but Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and begins to lay the foundation for the global heroin trade. And in Bologna, a bartender searches for true love and his missing communist father. It is 1954--the height of the Cold War--and these three are on a path toward an intersection that will involve the nascent KGB, Joseph McCarthy, Frances Farmer, Parisian lowlifes, Marshal Tito, David Niven, James Bond, and a very special television set called the McGuffin Electric. This book is a political thriller, a comic spy caper, a romance, and a social satire.--From publisher description."@en

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  • "Foreign fiction in English"@en
  • "History"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"

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  • "54 : Roman"
  • "'54"@en
  • "'54"
  • "54"@es
  • "54"@it
  • "54"
  • "54"@en

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