The Kalahari Typing School For Men: Summary and book reviews of The Kalahari Typing School For Men by Alexander McCall Smith, plus links to an excerpt from The Kalahari Typing School For Men and a biography of Alexander McCall Smith.
The Kalahari Typing School For Men More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2003,
192 pages.
Paperback: Mar 2004,
192 pages.
Now that The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (the only detective agency for ladies and others in Botswana) is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride: she’s reached her late thirties ("the finest age to be"), has a house, two children, a good fiancé -- Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni -- and many satisfied customers. But life is never without its problems. It turns out that her adopted son is responsible for the dead hoopoe bird in the garden; her assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband and needs help with her idea to open the Kalahari Typing School for Men; yet Mma Ramotswe’s sexist rival has no trouble opening his Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. Will Precious Ramotswe’s delightfully cunning and profoundly moral methods save the day? Follow the continuing story of Botswana’s first lady detective in the irresistible The Kalahari Typing School for Men.
BOOK REVIEWS
Media Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
Readers who haven’t yet discovered Mma Ramotswe will enjoy discovering how her quiet humor, understated observation, and resolutely domestic approach to detection promise to put Botswana on the sleuthing map for good.
Publishers Weekly
A dose of easy humor laces the pages...This is another graceful entry in a pleasingly modest and wise series.
The New York Times Book Review - Alida Becker
Practical yet softhearted, inventive yet steeped in convention...Mma Ramotswe’s methods -- and her results -- are as unusual as the novels they inhabit.
The Los Angeles Times
Smart and sassy...Precious’s progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once…. Thoroughly engaging and entertaining.
The Sunday Telegraph - Anthony Daniels
This is art that conceals art. I haven’t read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time.
Recent Reader Reviews
Rated of 5
by Victoria Insight in the African culture, nature and its peoples´minds This is a great book! The whole series is great! If you do not afford to go to Africa, then you should read this book...You will feel like you are there in Botswana!
Rated of 5
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