Premio Planeta de Novela (Planeta Novel Prize)
The Tempest
Juan Manuel de Prada’s La tempestad won the prize. Set in Venice, it intertwines art scholarship, crime, and the shadow of memory.
Work Information
A Venice-set novel where art and crime collide.
In snowbound, flood-struck Venice, a young art historian’s research into Giorgione’s The Tempest draws him into a web of crime and mystery.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Published
- 2004-06-05
- Pages
- 341 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.46 x 2.49 x 19.56 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781585675500
- ISBN-10
- 1585675504
- Price
- 15441 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
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. 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.