by Alexander McCall Smith · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405867771
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«Tears of the Giraffe» is the graded reader novel by Alexander McCall Smith for English learners, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Second instalment of the series about the detective agency of Mma Precious Ramotswe, the first private detective in Botswana. The plot follows her investigations, including the search for a young American man who disappeared ten years earlier, as her wedding to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni approaches.
Edition adapted by John Potter, level 4 of the Pearson English Graded Readers collection, within the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith.
Recommended for intermediate-level English learners who want to read a mystery and humour story set in Africa.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
