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Villa incognito

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine just those things (don't even try to imagine the love story) and you'll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins's eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel--a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about "the false mustache of the world"--But neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito.

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  • "Après la guerre du Viêt Nam, trois pilotes américains se font passer pour morts et disparaissent au Laos dans un village perdu. Ils bâtissent une maison, la Villa Incognito, où ils vivent une existence dorée entre philosophie zen, trafic d'opium et concubines multiples. Mais l'un d'eux se fait arrêter à Guam lors d'un transfert de drogue et la CIA se décide d'enquêter sur ce trio infernal..."
  • "Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine just those things (don't even try to imagine the love story) and you'll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins's eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel--a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about "the false mustache of the world"--But neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito."@en
  • "The arrest of a drug-smuggling priest who is actually an MIA American threatens to blow the cover of his flight crew who chose to remain incognito in Laos after the end of the Vietnam war."
  • "Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore."
  • "The arrest of an American MIA who disappeared on a bombing run over Vietnam threatens to blow the cover of his flight crew, who chose to remain incognito in Laos after the war had ended, in this meditation on the nature of identity."@en
  • "American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore."

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "American fiction"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Villa incognito"@en
  • "Villa incognito : Roman"
  • "Villa incognito"
  • "Villa Incognito : [roman]"
  • "Villa Incognito Roman"
  • "Vila Inkognito"
  • "Villa Incognito"@en
  • "Villa Incognito"@it
  • "Villa Incognito"
  • "Villa Incognito : Roman"

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