The Virtuoso -- Margriet de Moor

Condition : Good.

Picador, 1997, Medium-format Paperback - Fiction - 201 pp.

In Margriet de Moor's prizewinning novel a strange and extraordinary love story unfolds amid the carriages, churches, and shadowed harbors of eighteenth-century Naples. De Moor recreates the world of Italian music and Naples' fashionable aristocracy with a sensuality that takes the breath away.

For one entire opera season, Carlotta, a Neapolitan duchess, sits in her candle-lit box captive to her passion for Gasparo, the tantalizing castrato with whom she has been smitten since their childhood together in a small Italian village.

First published in Holland, and since translated into thirteen languages, this unusual tale of song and sensuality has seduced readers around the world. A novel of sweeping gestures with delicate grace notes, The Virtuoso is a story of an exceptional place and and exceptional passion..

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