The Tempest - Softcover

Prada, Juan Manuel De

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ISBN 10: 0340750235 ISBN 13: 9780340750230

Publisher: Sceptre, 2000

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Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, travels to Venice to study Giorgione's painting "The Tempest", but witnesses a murder on his first day. He is then propelled into a dangerous and seductive web connecting various academic circles to a master forger.

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Review:

'A beautifully written, quietly compelling work' -- Sunday Telegraph

'I loved it' -- Time Out

'Richly decadent...a highbrow whodunnit' -- Sunday Express

'The Tempest defies categorisation and should enjoy broad appeal' -- Financial Times

About the Author:

Juan Manuel de Prada is a regular contributor to several Spanish leading newspapers and magazines, and has published two acclaimed story collections, 'Conos' (Cunts) and 'El Silencio del Patinador' (The Silence of the Skater) as well as his highly praised and prize-winning first novel 'Las Mascaras del Heroe' (The Hero's Masks). The Tempest, his second novel, won the Premio Planeta and became a huge success on publication in 1997. His books have also been published in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Norway, Portugal and Finland.

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