An essential companion for every traveller to Venice, this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers, Javier Marias
Javier Marias (Author)
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He
published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and
several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into
forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international
literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A
Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States
and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford
University.
Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and
Portuguese writers, among them novelists- Javier Marias, Jose
Saramago and E a de Queiroz, and poets- Sophia de Mello Breyner
Andresen, Mario de Sa-Carneiro and Ana Luisa Amaral. Her work has
brought her numerous prizes, most recently, the 2018 Premio
Valle-Inclan for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2014, she was
awarded an OBE for services to literature.
Publisher's description. A spell-binding literary journey through
the ancient and timeless maze of Venice. With characteristic
thoughtfulness and elegance, Marías captures this city of
contradictions, where glamour and squalor are layered one atop the
other, and the truly native Venetians are a rare and elusive
tribe.
*Penguin*
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