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On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomunitario, the dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goods.
| ISBN | 0099474182 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780099474180
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 194 | | Publisher | Cornerstone | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Arrow Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 178 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 113 | | Publication date | 02 Mar 2006 | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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