Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:50 pm
Have any of you come across this little gem of a book? It's a novel with a professor of philology as the unlikely bumbling hero. From the blurb:
Here's a link to a review:
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Anyone else read this? What did you think?
Jonah.
The writer is Alexander McCall Smith, who is better known for his series about the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, a series which I found absolutley delightful and can heartily recommend. These are light-hearted books with a gentle humour which I think is quite rare this days. Well written, but not heavy going.Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg...
Here's a link to a review:
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Anyone else read this? What did you think?
Jonah.