The Tempest

Name: The Tempest
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Juan Manuel de Prada
ISBN: 9780340750230

Juan Manuel de Prada

19/10/2000
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Couverture de The Tempest par Juan Manuel de Prada

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, travels to Venice to study Giorgione's painting "The Tempest", but witnesses a murder on his first day. He is then propelled into a dangerous and seductive web connecting various academic circles to a master forger. Biographie de l'auteur Juan Manuel de Prada is regular contributor to several Spanish leading newspapers and magazines, and has published two acclaimed story collections, 'Conos' (Cunts) and 'El Silencio del Patinador' (The Silence of the Skater) as well as his highly praised and prize-winning first novel 'Las Mascaras del Heroe' (The Hero's Masks). The Tempest, his second novel, won the Premio Planeta and became a huge success on publication in 1997. His books have also been published in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Norway, Portugal and Finland.