Venetian Masters: Under the Skin of the City Of

Name: Venetian Masters: Under the Skin of the City Of
Brand: SUMMERSDALE PUBLISHERS
SKU: 324055
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ISBN

9781840246346

Mladinska knjiga ID

324055

Leto izida

2008

Velikost (šxdxv)

150 × 200 × 10

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Na zalogi pri dobavitelju

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ANG

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SUMMERSDALE PUBLISHERS

Avtor

BIDISHA

Opis

Very few people, Italians included, get to experience the real Venice. The sinking city has been mythologised in history, art, literature and music for centuries, but memoirs and stories tend to resonate with cliches of its high aestheticism, the pleasures of the good life and the contrastingly dark underbelly of vendettas and crimes of passion.During two long, humid summers, Bidisha, a young writer from London, set out to explore the truth of the revered City of Love. She was guided through its intricate social conventions by her best friend's family, as characterful and regal as anything Henry James could invent, who have been established in one of the most famous palazzi on the Canal Grande since making their fortune importing glass beads in the seventeenth century. While learning valuable lessons about the easygoing rhythm of 'the Italian way', Bidisha also glimpsed the coldness and disturbing prejudices that exist close beneath the sophisticated surface of this stylish place." Venetian Masters" is a witty portrait of a family and a slice-of-life observation of a city where the police officers look like male models, vicious public arguments flare up over the behaviour of pet dogs and the theft of a bottle of champagne from a pavilion at the Art Biennale constitutes the greatest crime wave of the last five years.

Independent on Sunday, 2 March 08
`an excellent new book by Bidisha, a meditation on that most haunting and evocative of places, La Serenissima: Venice'
The List magazine, March 2008
`Her journey through the winding back streets and glamorous cocktail soirées is intoxicating and satisfyingly full of insight.'

Waterstones Books Quarterly, March 2008
'razor-sharp travelogue'

The Independent on Sunday's Holiday Hotlist, 20th July 2008
'...she became absorbed into the intrigues and rituals of this notoriously secret city... fascinating insider's glimpse into a closed world'

Asian Woman Book of the Month, July 2008
'an engrossing read'

About the Author
Bidisha was born in 1978, started writing at the age of 15 and at 16 signed her first book deal with HarperCollins, for her first novel, Seahorses. In 2000 she published her second novel, Too Fast to Live.