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The city of your final destination

A wryly humorous, impeccably observed novel about the capriciousness of love Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accepted a fellowship from the university, and with his girlfriend's vehement encouragement, he goes in person to Uruguay to petition to Gund's three executors. Although Caroline Gund, Jules' wife, and Arden Langdon, Jules' mistress and mother of his child, are initially opposed to the idea of a biography, Omar has the support of Adam, Jules' older brother, and hopes to be able to persuade the two women. Omar's unexpected arrival in Uruguay reverberates through this odd and isolated little family group, and his stay in the languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question his former life in Kansas, and his ability-even his desire-to write an "authorized" life. A novel about the random nature of love, and the ways in which we confront or avoid life's choices, The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic fourth novel from Peter Cameron.

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  • "Omar Razaghi travels to the estate of the late Uruguayan author Jules Gund in order to convince his three executors to let him write an authorized biography."
  • ""The plot involves a graduate student in possession of a grant that will allow him the time to write and guaranteed publication of a biography of a now-deceased author whose one published novel seems to speak directly to him. However, the author's literary executors refuse him authorization, so he travels to their home in Uruguay as much to impress his girlfriend as to gain that authorization. The executors are a delightfully odd lot, each self-possessed and deeply flawed. And it is among them that the graduate student finds both true love and a new home"--Library Journal review, quoted in Amazon.com."
  • "A wryly humorous, impeccably observed novel about the capriciousness of love Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accepted a fellowship from the university, and with his girlfriend's vehement encouragement, he goes in person to Uruguay to petition to Gund's three executors. Although Caroline Gund, Jules' wife, and Arden Langdon, Jules' mistress and mother of his child, are initially opposed to the idea of a biography, Omar has the support of Adam, Jules' older brother, and hopes to be able to persuade the two women. Omar's unexpected arrival in Uruguay reverberates through this odd and isolated little family group, and his stay in the languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question his former life in Kansas, and his ability-even his desire-to write an "authorized" life. A novel about the random nature of love, and the ways in which we confront or avoid life's choices, The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic fourth novel from Peter Cameron."@en
  • "Après avoir grandi au Canada en exil avec ses parents iraniens, Omar Razaghi termine ses études littéraires dans une université du Kansas. Peu concerné par son travail d'enseignant et sa relation amoureuse avec Deirdre, il décide d'écrire une biographie du défunt Jules Gund, un écrivain uruguayen. Il se retrouve alors là-bas, en Uruguay, plongé dans le climat d'une étrange famille."
  • ""Ein junger Biograph reist nach Uruguay, um das Leben seines Idols aufzuschreiben. Statt dessen ändert sich sein eigenes Leben radikal"--Page 4. of cover."
  • "Een jonge Amerikaanse academicus krijgt een beurs om de biografie van een onbekende Uruguayaanse auteur te schrijven, maar diens familie gaat daarmee niet accoord."

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Récits humoristiques"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humorous stories, American"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "La ciudad de tu destino final"@es
  • "Là-bas: roman"
  • "De stad waar je ten slotte aankomt"
  • "Quella sera dorata"
  • "Quella sera dorata"@it
  • "Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit : Roman"
  • "La Ciudad de tu destino final"
  • "La Ciutat del teu destí"@ca
  • "Là-bas"
  • "La ciutat del teu destí"
  • "The city of your final destination"
  • "The city of your final destination"@en
  • "Là-bas : roman"
  • "Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit Roman"

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