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Venice, 1944. Though the war is waning, the city is still occupied and people all over Europe fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a sky of brilliant stars, a poor fisherman named Cenzo comes across a girls body, floating in the lagoon. He carries her into his boat, and soon discovers that she is very much alive, and very much in trouble: born to a wealthy Jewish family who has been captured and deported by the Nazis, Guilia is on the run after being discovered hiding in a local hospital. Cenzo decides its the right thing to do to help her escape, but an innocent act of chivalry quickly turns to love as the two grow closer. Set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of World War II Italy, The Girl from Venice is a sweeping and romantic love story from one of our most celebrated contemporary suspense writers.
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Review:
PRAISE FOR MARTIN CRUZ SMITH:
Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller. The New York Times"
Smith is that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction. His prose is clear, precise, and unobtrusively elegant, and his sense of character is unerring. The Washington Post
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A true storyteller. . . . Think Joseph Conrad on amphetamines. Newsweek"
With the recent death of the reigning master of the suspense novel, Elmore Leonard, to whom do we turn in the hopes of a masterly glide through dire straits in the dark side of life, with pitch-perfect dialogue, intriguing characters, and a plot with punchy turns and a satisfying twist? My candidate would be California writer Martin Cruz Smith. Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News"
Evocative . . . Smith conjures the time and place with a generous dose of what the novelist Evan Connell called luminous details. . . . The Girl from Venice s vivid treatments of a timeless trade and certain little-known aspects of World War II make it well worth your time. Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post"
You think you've read every permutation of a World War II novel possible then along comes a Venetian fisherman and his unlikely first mate, a beautiful Jewish teenaged girl on the run from the last few Nazis occupying Italy. . . . Suspense, romance, spying, action this novel has a little bit of everything, and it works. Cruz Smith is a master of quick scene changes . . . [who] has chosen, in The Girl from Venice, to put aside his usual spy stories for a straightforward wartime chase-cum-romance, a slice of La Serenissima life so perfectly researched that details melt into action like the local goby fish into risotto. Bethanne Patrick, NPR"
"Evocative . . . Smith conjures the time and place with a generous dose of what the novelist Evan Connell called 'luminous details.' . . . The Girl from Venice's vivid treatments of a timeless trade and certain little-known aspects of World War II make it well worth your time." --Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
"You think you've read every permutation of a World War II novel possible--then along comes a Venetian fisherman and his unlikely first mate, a beautiful Jewish teenaged girl on the run from the last few Nazis occupying Italy. . . . Suspense, romance, spying, action--this novel has a little bit of everything, and it works. Cruz Smith is a master of quick scene changes . . . [who] has chosen, in The Girl from Venice, to put aside his usual spy stories for a straightforward wartime chase-cum-romance, a slice of La Serenissima life so perfectly researched that details melt into action like the local goby fish into risotto." --Bethanne Patrick, NPR
PRAISE FOR MARTIN CRUZ SMITH:
"Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller." --The New York Times
"Smith is that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction. His prose is clear, precise, and unobtrusively elegant, and his sense of character is unerring." --The Washington Post
"A true storyteller. . . . Think Joseph Conrad on amphetamines." --Newsweek
"With the recent death of the reigning master of the suspense novel, Elmore Leonard, to whom do we turn in the hopes of a masterly glide through dire straits in the dark side of life, with pitch-perfect dialogue, intriguing characters, and a plot with punchy turns and a satisfying twist? My candidate would be California writer Martin Cruz Smith." --Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News
PRAISE FOR MARTIN CRUZ SMITH: "Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller." --The New York Times
About the Author:
Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller. The New York Times"
Smith is that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction. His prose is clear, precise, and unobtrusively elegant, and his sense of character is unerring. The Washington Post
"
A true storyteller. . . . Think Joseph Conrad on amphetamines. Newsweek"
With the recent death of the reigning master of the suspense novel, Elmore Leonard, to whom do we turn in the hopes of a masterly glide through dire straits in the dark side of life, with pitch-perfect dialogue, intriguing characters, and a plot with punchy turns and a satisfying twist? My candidate would be California writer Martin Cruz Smith. Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News"
Evocative . . . Smith conjures the time and place with a generous dose of what the novelist Evan Connell called luminous details. . . . The Girl from Venice s vivid treatments of a timeless trade and certain little-known aspects of World War II make it well worth your time. Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post"
You think you've read every permutation of a World War II novel possible then along comes a Venetian fisherman and his unlikely first mate, a beautiful Jewish teenaged girl on the run from the last few Nazis occupying Italy. . . . Suspense, romance, spying, action this novel has a little bit of everything, and it works. Cruz Smith is a master of quick scene changes . . . [who] has chosen, in The Girl from Venice, to put aside his usual spy stories for a straightforward wartime chase-cum-romance, a slice of La Serenissima life so perfectly researched that details melt into action like the local goby fish into risotto. Bethanne Patrick, NPR"
"Evocative . . . Smith conjures the time and place with a generous dose of what the novelist Evan Connell called 'luminous details.' . . . The Girl from Venice's vivid treatments of a timeless trade and certain little-known aspects of World War II make it well worth your time." --Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
"You think you've read every permutation of a World War II novel possible--then along comes a Venetian fisherman and his unlikely first mate, a beautiful Jewish teenaged girl on the run from the last few Nazis occupying Italy. . . . Suspense, romance, spying, action--this novel has a little bit of everything, and it works. Cruz Smith is a master of quick scene changes . . . [who] has chosen, in The Girl from Venice, to put aside his usual spy stories for a straightforward wartime chase-cum-romance, a slice of La Serenissima life so perfectly researched that details melt into action like the local goby fish into risotto." --Bethanne Patrick, NPR
PRAISE FOR MARTIN CRUZ SMITH:
"Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller." --The New York Times
"Smith is that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction. His prose is clear, precise, and unobtrusively elegant, and his sense of character is unerring." --The Washington Post
"A true storyteller. . . . Think Joseph Conrad on amphetamines." --Newsweek
"With the recent death of the reigning master of the suspense novel, Elmore Leonard, to whom do we turn in the hopes of a masterly glide through dire straits in the dark side of life, with pitch-perfect dialogue, intriguing characters, and a plot with punchy turns and a satisfying twist? My candidate would be California writer Martin Cruz Smith." --Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News
PRAISE FOR MARTIN CRUZ SMITH: "Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller." --The New York Times
Martin Cruz Smith's novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Polar Star, Stalin's Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, and The Girl from Venice. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of Britain's Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1501154435
- ISBN 13 9781501154430
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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