The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant

by Kristina Cordero (Translator), Pablo Tusset (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.30

  An easy-riding, ball-busting comedy of bad manners, this is one of the most surprising and entertaining literary debuts of recent years. Pablo Baloo Miralles, a fat, useless and flatulent thirty-year-old, is the black sheep of his obscenely wealthy family. While he dedicates his days to online philosophy chatrooms and his nights to whatever pleasures he can find, his brother, 'The First,' is president of his booming family business. But, when 'The First' suddenly disappears, Pablo finds himself being sucked into a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure - an adventure in which he must use all of his well-honed survival instincts to come out alive.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.30

  Pablo 'Baloo' Miralles, an overweight, inept thirty year old layabout and the black sheep of his family, reluctantly gives up his splendid isolation to investigate a suspicious organisation. While Pablo is a renowned internet philosopher and a frequenter of brothels, his brother, 'The First', is president of the prosperous family business. But having strong armed Pablo into action, The First suddenly disappears and his irreverent brother begins a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure: racing around in a sports car that resembles Bagheera, getting into scrapes with venereal infections and web pages with dubious content ...before locating an invisible citadel in the heart of Barcelona. This literary debut is one of the most surprising and entertaining of recent years. Tusset has shown himself to be a hugely talented satirist.