Mr Abeels runs a flower shop that is about to enter the age of modernity. He imagines, through the miracle of plastics, flowers that never fade! His novelty, though, is snatched up by the ambitious city planners of the all-new city of Brusel. No more lack of hygiene! No more dusty old buildings! All is razed and enormous new skyscrapers are erected at blistering speed! Never mind the disruptions and uprootings of people's lives! Who needs to preserve and live in history? While this upheaval is going on, Abell falls in love with a renegade woman who fights the extensive redesigns and ends up having to play both sides very carefully...
- ISBN10 1561632910
- ISBN13 9781561632916
- Publish Date 1 January 2003
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 July 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint NBM Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English