Author: John Berendt
Translator: Young-moon Jeong
Publisher: Hwanggum Nachimban
493 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after
more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery,
and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
achieved a record-breaking four-year run on The New York Times
bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought
the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of
people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt
and only Berendt who can capture Venice-a city of masks, a city of
riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze,
confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice,
a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture,
teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its
architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments
fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling
Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire
destroys the historic Venice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where
five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians.
Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of
detective-inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable
museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the
course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of
characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts
his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the first
family of American expatriates that loses possession of the family
palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of
high-society, partygoing Americans who raise money to preserve the art
and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves,
questioning one another's motives and drawing startled Venetians into
the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous
provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others-stool
pigeons, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, believers in Martians, the
Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James.
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