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The lost language of oysters / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
"The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's charming and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9798217008322 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 216 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2025
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| General Note: | Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Abacus, 2025. |
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| Subject: | College teachers > Fiction. Igelfeld, Moritz-Maria von (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Philologists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Novels. |
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The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smithâs charming and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series
Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professorâhe is the author of the highly-regarded work of scholarship, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. His eminence in language studies is widely respected, albeit rarely acknowledged by his colleague, Professor Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer, the writer of a far less important book on the subjunctive. Their rivalry bubbles under the surface, but is quick to come into the open if something unusual disturbs the calm waters of the institute in Regensburg where they both work.
One such event is the arrival of two visiting scholars from New Orleans. These ladies, Professor Pom Pom Boisseau and her friend, Professor Alice Martinique, are experts in the Provençal language and avid bikers. When they choose to make a dramatic entrance atop large, noisy motorbikes, Unterholzer is shocked, but von Igelfeld is rather taken with Pom Pom. In fact, he is very taken with her.
Everyone can foresee this infatuation leading to disappointment, if not worse. But for von Igelfeld, disasters often arrive in twos and threes. Von Igelfeld may suffer humiliation after humiliation, but at the end of it all is the promise of a visit to Louisiana, where important research on communication among oysters is underway…
