John Banville: Venetian Vespers, Gebunden
Venetian Vespers
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593801161
- Item number:
- 12161670
- Volume:
- 320 Pages
- Weight:
- 499 g
- Format:
- 210 x 143 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 7.10.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Venetian Vespers |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 28.24* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 15.54* |
Blurb
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORKER RECOMMENDED BOOK • IRISH BESTSELLER "A stylish escapade that even Henry James might relish." ---Wall Street Journal A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . .
- As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman---a hack, by his own description---marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch's death, leads to her disinheritance.
The unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice to celebrate the New Year at the Palazzo Dioscuri, ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo. From their first moments in the mist-blanketed floating city, otherworldly occurrences begin to accumulate. Evelyn's already jangled nerves fray further. Where has Laura disappeared to? How to explain the increasingly sinister circumstances closing around him? Could he be losing his mind?
Venetian Vespers is a haunting, atmospheric novel from one of the most sophisticated stylists of our time.
Biography
John Banville, geboren 1945 in Wexford, Irland, gehört zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Autoren Irlands. Sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. 2011 mit dem Franz-Kafka-Preis. John Banville lebt und arbeitet in Dublin.
