Casanova

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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⭐ Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐Casanova: the unforgettable portrait of the legendary Casanova at a turning point in his life and loves'Sparkling'The Times'Exquisite'Daily Telegraph'Beautiful'ObserverIn 1763, the famed Venetian seducer Giacomo Casanova arrives in England intent on a respite from his restless travels and liaisons, but cannot long resist the lure of company or a pretty face. This time, though, it is he who falls in love, and with an elusive quarry.Here is Casanova in unfamiliar guise: thwarted, driven by his emotions and, in middle-age, forced to reassess his whole life.Praise for Andrew Miller'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-04-15
Mått129 x 198 x 22 mm
Vikt204 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagHodder & Stoughton
ISBN9780340682104

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Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm's Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.