Cork Lucy Hounsom Magha tasks him with the

Magha tasks him with the translation of an epic Sanskrit poem

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the most explosive contribution to crime fiction since Ellroy

When she falls in love with an Outsider

Cork Lucy Hounsom Magha tasks him with the"My name is Lily Campendonc. A long time ago I used to live in Lisbon. . . ." So begins Cork, in which a pragmatic young British widow, proprietor of a cork processing factory, embarks on an affair with her husband's former office manager, Her lover will meet only once a year, and insists that their encounters be pseudonymous masquerades. For him, this role playing is essential: ''You see, because I am nothing, I can imagine anything. . . . If I were