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Venetian Vespers
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW : 'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN
'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DELILLO
'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' IRISH TIMES 'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat, and looks forward to the financial freedom this will afford him. But in the midst of a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch's death, Evelyn's plans of a substantial inheritance are thrown into doubt.
As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice for New Year at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarig - a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves: is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he losing his mind?
- About The Author
- JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, the 2005 Booker Prize-winning The Sea, and, more recently, the bestselling Strafford and Quirke crime series, which has twice been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.
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- ISBN
- 9780571386635
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (25 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 mm
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