Two cities
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Two cities
Picador, 2000, c1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998; London: Picador, 1999
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Two Cities is a love story. Kassima is a young widow mourning her husband and sons. She allows no one to get close to her, until she embarks on a passionate affair with a gentle man named Robert Jones, who yearns to break through the barriers she has erected. When her life is threatened by violence, Kassima retreats. But the two are reunited by the death of Kassima's tenant, Mr Mallory, an eccentric who roamed the streets with an ancient camera. He leaves behind an astounding legacy: a box of photographs that document half a century of African-American history. At a moment of explosive neighbourhood confrontation, the photographs provide Kassima with an unexpected means of healing her community and herself.
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