The Instrumentalist
For fans of THE MINIATURIST and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
(Sprache: Englisch)
A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces
'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'I was...
'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'I was...
Erscheint am 15.08.2024
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A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal' Elizabeth Macneal
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Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà, abandoned orphan girls are posted every through a tiny gap in the wall every day.
Eight-year-old Anna Maria is just one of the three hundred girls growing up within the Pietà's walls - but she already knows she is different. Obsessive and gifted, she is on a mission to become Venice's greatest violinist and composer, and in her remarkable world of colour and sound, it seems like nothing with stop her.
But the odds are stacked against an orphan girl - so when the maestro selects her as his star pupil, Anna Maria knows she must do everything in power to please this difficult, brilliant man. But as Anna Maria's star rises, threatening to eclipse that of her mentor, the dream she has so single-mindedly pursued is thrown into peril...
From the jewelled palaces of Venice to its mud-licked canals, this is a story of one woman's irrepressible ambition and rise to the top, of loss and triumph, and of who we choose to remember and leave behind on the path to success.
Autoren-Porträt von Harriet Constable
Harriet Constable is a journalist, filmmaker and author based in London. Her journalism and documentary work has featured in outlets including the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, NPR, and the Economist. She is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism summer school and is a Pulitzer Center grantee and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. harrietconstable.com @HConstable
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Harriet Constable
- 2024, 336 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1526675269
- ISBN-13: 9781526675262
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The Heresies and The Dance Tree
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