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Teffi here plumbs the darker aspects of psychology
mountains and motorways
cherry blossoms
a searcher for truth
stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967 as the two ill-fated attendant lords from Shakespeare's Hamlet take centre stage
Bait Carl Honore Teffi here plumbs the darkerIt was an afternoon at the beginning of that summer . . . Marga is about to turn thirteen. Whiling away muggy afternoons in the small fishermans town of Paso Chico, she watches her favourite soap on TV and waits for something, anything, to happen. Almost like an apparition, Recio arrives: disrupting the silence of siesta and revealing the strange, twisted dynamics of the towns inhabitants. As a cargo ship waits on the viscous river of this hot, humid