Name: Prince of the Clouds von Gianni Riotta
SKU: 9780007120000
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Prince of the Clouds Zusammenfassung

Prince of the Clouds Gianni Riotta

A rousingly romantic Mediterranean novel of love and war. 'Even more enchanting than Louis de Bernieres's Captain Correlli's Mandolin, Riotta's novel is a revelation' (Daily Mail).

Palermo, 1946. Carlo Terzo, a retired military strategist who has never seen combat, is teaching young Salvatore Dragonara military history while Terzo works on his Manual for Strategic Living, in which he hopes to apply the hard lessons of war to daily life.

Salvatore is in love with the young and beautiful Fiore, whose mother, the Duchess Mastema, is a rich and cruel landowner. When Terzo and his friends visit the duchess's property, they are caught in a pitched battle between the oppressed peasants and the duchess's hired thugs, and Terzo is forced to put his strategic wisdom to the test...

Like Louis de Bernieres' Captain Correlli's Mandolin, Gianni Riotta's charming and provocative romance explores large and small matters of love and war, shifting between the turbulence of post-war Sicily and the great battles of ancient and modern history. A bestseller in Italy, Prince of the Clouds is a deeply moving work of fiction, imbued with rare vibrancy and feeling.

Prince of the Clouds Bewertungen

'Gianni Riotta writes with the vigour of a lover and the crisp knowledge of an academic. He is as romantic as Pasternak, as colourful and densely plotted as Garcia Marquez.The nature and scale of the story are so grand, so classically elegant, it is with a jolt one remembers that the tale is set in the twentieth century.Few writers dare, or succeed, in such territory, and still fewer make the subject of war so readable.'Observer

'An entertainment proper for the thinking person...it works for Umberto Eco,it works for Indiana Jones, and now it works for Riotta: the rip-roaring romance with the scholarly plot.' Michael Pye, New York Times

Über Gianni Riotta

gianni riotta is a novelist and journalist who is currently the co-editor of La Stampa, one of Italy's leading newspapers. This is his first book to be translated into English. He lives in Turin and New York.

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Sku

GOR003312439

ISBN 13

9780007120000

ISBN 10

0007120001

Titel

Prince of the Clouds Gianni Riotta

Autor

Gianni Riotta

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

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Verlag

HarperCollins Publishers

Datum

20010820

Anzahl der Seiten

304

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