Donna Leon: The Jewels of Paradise
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Grove Press
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780802120656
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Internationally praised for her Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Donna Leon s first standalone novel features a widely different but equally compelling sleuth, Caterina Pellegrini. Caterina is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she s had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of Agostino Steffani, a baroque composer have been discovered. Deeply-connected in religious and political circles, the composer died childless; now two Venetians, descendants of his cousins, each claim inheritance. Caterina s job is to examine any papers found in the trunks to discover Steffani s testamentary disposition of the composer. But when her research takes her in unexpected directions she begins to wonder just what secrets these trunks may hold. From a masterful writer, 'The Jewels of Paradise' is a superb novel, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed. '