''At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' is a book by Scottish author and academic

Alexander McCall Smith Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British writer. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law an ...

, relating further matters in the life of the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.

Plot

The Professor is a troubled German academic whose life's achievement is the (fictional) book, ''

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''. The book relates details of von Igelfeld's troubled relationships with the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr ('' honoris causa'') Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer, who work at the fictional Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, Germany. The book consists of two longer stories. In the first story, ''On Being Light Blue'' von Igelfeld's birthday wish leads him to a four-month stint at

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...

where he is nonplussed by the eccentric English academics and their constant infighting. In the second story, ''The Villa of Reduced Circumstances,'' von Igelfeld unwittingly becomes embroiled in a military coup in Colombia after being invited there to receive an academic award.

Book series

This is one book of a series: * ''

'' (1997) * ''

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'' (2003) * ''At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2011)

External links

Author's page at Random House publishers
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