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Black Waltz Patricia Melo

Black Waltz By Patricia Melo

Black Waltz by Patricia Melo


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Summary

Jealousy - overpowering, beyond the reach of reason, Othello-like - is the focus of this latest work by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writers

Black Waltz Summary

Black Waltz by Patricia Melo

A successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in Sao Paulo is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her life because, unlike her, he is not Jewish; and that she will be unfaithful to him. Jealousy - beyond the reach of reason - haunts his every moment, gnawing at his trust, his love, and ultimately his sanity. Black Waltz opens a fascinating and harrowing window into a mind bordering on paranoia and psychosis.

Black Waltz Reviews

'A white-knuckle read' Guardian 'Melo's follow-up to the acclaimed Inferno is a cruelly focused, finely balanced and brilliantly written study. Her great achievement is to make what, on the surface, is a simple tale of a man's jealousy and mid-life doubt, into a swelling epic of grubby emotion and deep, empty despair' Sunday Herald 'The study of a man's disintegration into pathological jealousy ... her style is elastic ... the novel speeds along' Times Literary Supplement 'The terrible tale of a conductor whose jealousy of his younger wife teeters into paranoia' Evening Standard

About Patricia Melo

Patricia Melo is a novelist, scriptwriter and playwright. Her novels The Killer, In Praise of Lies and Inferno are all published by Bloomsbury. In 1999, Time magazine included her among the fifty 'Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium'.

Additional information

GOR007319982
9780747576594
0747576599
Black Waltz by Patricia Melo
Used - Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2005-11-07
224
N/A
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