Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment Novel (4)

Resumen del libro

The fourth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's Portuguese Irregular Verbs series featuring Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, a maddening, ridiculous, utterly inspired comic creation.

Professor Doctor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 copies sold) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival (and owner of a one-legged dachsund) Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer has been winning undeserved recognition. With help from the matchmaking Ophelia Prinzel, he stumbles toward a romance with Frau Benz, a charming widow who owns her very own Schloss and a fleet of handsome cars. While on the annual student study retreat in the Alps, von Igelfeld fearlessly plunges 3000 feet into mountaineering history, only to suffer the ignominy of giving inspirational lectures about the experience. And at a dinner party, he is the only kind soul who can aid the aforementioned unfortunate dachshund, whose sticky wheels are in need of lubrication.

Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the Isabel Dalhousie series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics.

Biografía del autor

Alexander McCall Smith (Zimbabue, 1948) es un reconocido autor de novelas juveniles en el Reino Unido, pero sin duda se le conoce a nivel internacional gracias a la serie La primera agencia de mujeres detectives.