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Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi . • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." — San Francisco ChronicleLucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again.Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.
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In Lucia's Eyes, Arthur Japin
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
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- Titel
- In Lucia's Eyes
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Arthur Japin
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 140009612X
- ISBN13
- 9781400096121
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Schule, Südeuropa, Italien, Sexualität & Intimität, Literarische Fiktion, Novellen, 21. Jahrhundert, 18. Jahrhundert, Niederländische Literatur, Prostitution, Venedig, Amsterdam, Pocken, Giacomo Casanova, 1725–1798
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2003
- Originaltitel
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- Beschreibung
- Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi . • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." — San Francisco ChronicleLucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again.Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.