This comedy of errors is a pageturner, where a mailorder bride service, enough love triangles to boggle the mind, a stolen Egon Schiele painting, and a devastating fire lead the worlds of Santa Barbara and Chis?ina?u to collide.Los Angeles Review of BooksAn exhilaratingly comical, crosscultural debut novel, The Wife Who Wasnt brings together an eccentric community from the hills of Santa Barbara, California, and a family of Russians from Chi?inau, the capital of Moldova. It starts in the late 1990s, after the fall of communism, and has at its center the mailorder marriage between a California man (Sammy) and a Russian woman (Tania) who comes to America, which engenders a series of hilarious cultural misunderstandings.The novels four parts take place alternately in California and Moldova, and comprise short chapters whose point of view moves seamlessly between that of the omniscient narrator and that of various characters. Delivered in arresting prose, both realitieslate 90s, bohemian/hipster California and postcommunist Moldovathus come together from opposite points of view.Above all, this novel is a comedy of manners that depicts the cultural (and personality) clash between Tania and Sammy, Anna (Sammys teenage daughter) and Irina, and Bill (Sammys neighbor) and Serioja (Tanias brother). It is also a comedy of errors in the tradition of playful, multiple love triangles. The novel reaches a shocking climax involving a stolen Egon Schiele painting and alluding to the real...

Binding: Paperback;322 pages; Publisher: New Europe Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 512 g; Dimensions: 209 x 139 x 23

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