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Requiem for a Fish
Cover of French edition
AuthorChristine Adamo
Original titleRequiem pour un poisson
LanguageFrench
GenreCrime novel
PublisherLiana Levi
Publication date
7 January 2005
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint
Pages348 pp (first edition)
ISBN2-86746-378-5

Requiem pour un poisson (Requiem for a Fish) is a 2005 novel by French author Christine Adamo.

Plot

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The coelacanth is an ancient species of fish that might have been the missing link between land and sea. Many people believed that it had disappeared long before the dinosaurs' extinction. However, one day in 1938, a South African fisherman catches a specimen in his nets. But is the fish really the famous coelacanth? The world of science gets passionate and jealous around the beast. The book keeps up the suspense on who will be the one to trace it back to mankind. Stealing, cheating, lying and even murdering. An unlikely main character; young, pregnant, and Parisian named Marie, ends up getting caught up in the story.

Between Africa and the Comoro Islands, Sulawesi, London and Paris, the world of ichthyology turns into a gripping thriller.

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