FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW
'A marvellous and rewarding novelist ... He is a magician, really.' - THE SCOTSMAN
'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' - DON DeLILLO
'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' - IRISH TIMES
'One of my favourite writers alive.' - REBECCA F. KUANG
'Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance.' - NEW YORK TIMES
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me...
1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans of a substantial inheritance are thrown into doubt.
As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves: is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he losing his mind?
Fiction: general and literary, Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal
Paperback
John Banville
368 pages
H: 216mm W: 135mm