GREEN-EYED THIEVES

Book ID/图书代码： 11320006B02654

English Summary/英文概要： This is a story of twin boys u identical in appearance but in nothing else. Ashraf is all rage and action u a lover of the real. Firoze is a dreamer and reader - a lover of the ideal. The Dawood family is from Muslim Fordsburg. The father (formally at least) is a merchant and the mother a part-time philosophy lecturer at Wits. Their uncle, known universally as Ten-Per-Cent, lives in the house and shares the ginger-beer factory business with his brother. The story begins in Johannesburg but ends in the US. Ashraf is jailed in Fort Dix Prison in Texas, and Firoze is just settling in New York with his new young wife. Among the cast of characters are Mohammed Atta (of 9/11 notoriety), George Bush, a Pakistani Brigadier in Peshawar, a host of lawyers and assorted crooks of one kind or another, plus various Korean massage parlour girls. Firoze is the narrator and he tells the story while in prison u before finally tricking Ashraf into changing places. The story offers itself as an unconventional family memoir that tells the story of the fortunes of a family of crooks u the green-eyed thieves. The mother is an accomplished shoplifter; the father a master of all forms of theft u including

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 讲述了一个令人难以想象的关于Firoze Peer灵感犯罪和兄弟间背叛的故事, Firoze Peer是一位业余哲学家和神学家,狡猾,奸诈的绿眼阴谋家.
Firoze成长于传统的,和睦的大家庭,和他的双胞胎兄Ashraf在早年时就参与到家族生意中, Firoze有着十分聪明的头脑,受到他叔叔的鼓励,他一直都保持着阅读的良好习惯,并努力的学习数学, Ashraf在画画方面十分有天分,最初,他将这一手艺运用到钻石买卖中.
就这样,随着经验的累积,两兄弟的足迹跨遍了全世界,故事就这样开始了……

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About the Author/作者介绍： IMRAAN COOVADIA生于DURBAN,先居住与伦敦,纽约等地,他曾在哈佛学习哲学,并是<>一书的作者,并获得太阳时代小说奖的亚军。他的许多短文还登在了《110故事》等文选集。

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