The Lost Language of Oysters
- Authors: Alexander McCall Smith
- Series: Book 6 in the Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series
- Genres: General Fiction
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- Release Date: June 5, 2025
- Print length: 240 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s delightful and amusing series featuring Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld
Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld stands out among German professors for his acclaimed work, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. His expertise in language studies is highly regarded, though not always acknowledged by his colleague, Professor Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer, whose book on the subjunctive pales in comparison. Despite their underlying rivalry, tensions escalate when something out of the ordinary disrupts the tranquility of their institute in Regensburg.
Enter two visiting scholars from New Orleans - Professor Pom Pom Boisseau and Professor Alice Martinique, specialists in the Provençal language and enthusiastic bikers. Unterholzer is taken aback by their grand entrance on loud motorcycles, but von Igelfeld is smitten with Pom Pom, to say the least.
It is clear to everyone that this infatuation could lead to disappointment, or worse. Yet for von Igelfeld, misfortunes seem to come in multiples. Despite facing one humiliation after another, he holds onto the prospect of a research trip to Louisiana, where groundbreaking studies on oyster communication await...
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