Venetian Vespers

Beschreibung

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR, SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025<BR>FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEA<BR><BR>Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . .<BR>Winter 1899, and strange things are afoot. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat.

But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed.<BR><BR>Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly<BR>otherworldly occurrences, which exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves.

Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?<BR><BR>'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN<BR>'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DeLILLO<BR>'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' IRISH TIMES<BR>'One of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG<BR>'Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance.' NEW YORK TIMES

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