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Drabble,
Margaret.
THE
GATES
OF
IVORY
McClelland
&
Stewart,
1992.
464
pages
paperback
252
grams
With
THE
GATES
OF
IVORY,
Margaret
Drabble
returns
to
some
of
the
characters
readers
came
to
love
in
her
previous
international
bestsellers,
The
Radiant
Way
and
A
Natural
Curiosity.
There
is
Esther
Breuer,
the
art
historian,
Alix
Bowen,
the
teacher,
and
above
all,
Liz
Headleand,
the
psychiatrist
In
London,
Liz
receives
an
unexpected
package
containing,
among
other
items,
two
human
finger
bones,
a
laundry
bill
from
a
hotel
in
Thailand,
some
postcards
and
scraps
of
manuscript.
She
recognizes
the
handwriting
as
that
of
her
friend,
Stephen
Cox,
the
award-winning
novelist
who
has
been
travelling
in
the
Far
East
Has
something
terrible
happened
to
Stephen,
she
wonders.
To
find
out,
she
enlists
the
help
of
her
friends
and
Stephen's.
Gradually,
we
learn
of
Stephen's
difficult
pilgrimage,
from
Bangkok
to
Saigon
to
Hanoi
and,
finally,
the
dreaded,
violent
world
of
the
Khmer
Rouge
and
Pol
Pot's
Cambodia...
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