The Tempest - Rilegato

Prada, Juan Manuel De

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0340750227 ISBN 13: 9780340750223

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2000

Riassunto

Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione s painting 'The Tempest', the subject of his thesis and the centre of his academic life. But on his first day in the city, Ballesteros witnesses a murder which propels him into a dangerous and seductive web connecting the city s rarified academic circles with a master forger; a web which leads him to witness both theft and an orgy, and to break his heart, before the murder is solved. A stylish, highly atmospheric, sensuous thriller which explores the boundaries between art and reality, truth and fakery, intellect and beauty.

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Recensione:

'A dark, gripping work about emotions, repressed feelings and lives wasted and refound' Coventry Evening Telegraph

Richly decadent...a highbrow whodunnit that revolves around the mysteries of authenticity and authorship, aesthetics and obsession...plot is never sacrificed to theme,and the novel can be easily devoured. Yet, above all, this is a novel enraptured by Venice...Here is a place that serves as a graveyard to the monuments of its own desires, and in de Prada there is a voice that is equal to such a haunting lament. (Sunday Express)

'Richly decadent...a highbrow whodunnit that revolves around the mysteries of authenticity and authorship, aesthetics and obsession...plot is never sacrificed to theme,and the novel can be easily devoured. Yet, above all, this is a novel enraptured by Venice...Here is a place that serves as a graveyard to the monuments of its own desires, and in de Prada there is a voice that is equal to such a haunting lament.' Sunday Express

The Tempest defies categorisation and should enjoy broad appeal' (Financial Times)

A beautifully written, quietly compelling work, in which two mysteries - one criminal, the other artistic - slowly merge (Sunday Telegraph)

'A dark and gothic tale that overwhelms the reader with foreboding from the outset. Against the stinking canals, rotting backstreets and gangrenous palaces of the stinking city, de Prada has weaved a unique murder story shot through with poetic fetishism. The eroticism that permeates de Prada's Venetian journey makes this book a high contender for potential cult status. Quite a read. Evening Herald, Dublin

'A murky tale of mystery and subterfuge that mimics the dark pull of the canals and the foundering glory of Venice...The Tempest defies categorisation and should enjoy broad appeal' Joanna Clarke-Jones, Financial Times

'both engrossing and amusing and deserves to make the author, if not a bestseller, than at least a permanent member of W H Smith's crime section' Doncaster Free Press

'A sophisticated and elegantly written literary thriller...sensuous and involving' North London Weekly Herald

'Murder, theft, forgery, love and all manner of intrigue are woven into this allegorical coming-of-age.' The Good Book Guide

Descrizione del libro:

A prize-winning, bestselling literary thriller by a young Spanish writer set in present-day Venice

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340750227
• ISBN 13: 9780340750223
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320