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    The Strizzi

    By Karlheinz Paulsen

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    In a series of short biographies titled “The Island of the Marooned”, Karlheinz Paulsen offers entertaining, partially fictitious biographical portraits of European expats that have found a refuge on the Caribbean Island of Margarita, just off the coast of Venezuela, where some have come to enjoy a rather dubious reputation. The first volume, titled “The Strizzi”, lampoons in detail all known fraudulent character traits of one of the marooned, whose acts of felony are sometimes grotesquely humorous. Karlheinz Paulsen offers up some hair-raising episodes of this marooned expat’s life without mincing words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherI.M.D. Publicación C.A.
    Release dateJan 19, 2011
    ISBN9781458136534
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    The Strizzi
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    Karlheinz Paulsen

    Karlheinz Paulsen is the nom de plume of an expert on the expat scene found on Margarita Island who publishes partially fictitious biographies of the characters he meets. His inspiration to put pen to paper came after several encounters with these colorful characters ended with him holding the short end of the stick, which led him to believe that newbies should be offered a realistic impression of what their fellow islanders are capable of. Sometimes, in the interest of storytelling, it proved necessary to add second-hand information, but care was taken in such cases to ensure that the sources were reliable. Karlheinz Paulsen is a dyed-in-the-wool ‘Margariteño’, constantly on the lookout for the marooned and the shipwrecked of Europe, on the ready to chronicle their follies.

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