A Noble Radiance - Brossura

Leon, Donna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0142003190 ISBN 13: 9780142003190

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2003

Riassunto

The discovery of a badly decomposed corpse at a home not far from Venice reopens an infamous case of kidnapping that involves one of Venice's most important aristocratic families, as Commissario Brunetti races against time to uncover the truth about a chilling crime. Original.

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Recensione:

"A splendid series with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"An evocative peep into the dark underworld of the beauteous city." (Time Out, London)

L'autore:

A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. It was after a period in Saudi Arabia, which she found ‘damaging physically and spiritually’ that Donna decided to move to Venice, where she has now lived for over twenty years.

Her debut as a crime fiction writer began as a joke: talking in a dressing room in Venice’s opera-house La Fenice after a performance, Donna and a singer friend were vilifying a particular German conductor. From the thought ‘why don’t we kill him?’ and discussion of when, where and how, the idea for Death at La Fenice took shape, and was completed over the next four months.

Donna Leon is the crime reviewer for the London Sunday Times and is an opera expert. She has written the libretto for a comic opera, entitled Dona Gallina. Set in a chicken coop, and making use of existing baroque music, Donna Gallina was premiered in Innsbruck. Brigitte Fassbaender, one of the great mezzo-sopranos of our time, and now head of the Landestheater in Innsbruck, agreed to come out of retirement both to direct the opera and to play the part of the witch Azuneris (whose name combines the names of the two great Verdi villainesses Azucena and Amneris).

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• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142003190
• ISBN 13: 9780142003190
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304