The tempest / Juan Manuel de Prada ; translated by Paul Antill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prada, Juan Manuel de, 1970-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Antill, Paul.

Standardized Title:

Tempestad. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Giorgione, 1477 or 1478-1510. Tempests--Fiction.

Giorgione.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

341 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2003.

Summary:

Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world's most beautiful objets d'art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe's quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. In a tale with all the complex twists and turns of the city itself, "The Tempest" is a marvelously complex, erotic, and atmospheric mystery reminiscent of the bestselling novels of Arturo P&eacuterez-Reverte and Iain Pears. Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting "The Tempest," but on his first day there, he witnesses a shocking murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's rarified academic world and a master forger. Exploring the boundaries between art and reality, intellect and passion, The Tempest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel by one of Spain's most gifted new writers.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Sceptre, 2000.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1585673870

OCLC:

51655364