Con Brio - Softcover

Svit, Brina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860468578 ISBN 13: 9781860468575

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 2002

Synopsis

In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St Germain, a distinguished novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman's hands folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for a compelling story of desire and jealousy in Brina Svit's explosive new novel, Con Brio. The respected author's comfortable life vanishes the instant he admires this strange woman's hands; the discipline of forty productive years dissolves. On an impulse he proposes to her. She answers without hesitation: yes, she will marry him, but on her terms. She will live with him, but they are to remain strangers. Soon Kati has driven Tibor's housekeeper, secretary and even his cat from his home. And as she continues to hold Tibor at arms' length, he goes from being a cool observer of the chaos she creates, to a man driven wild by passion and jealousy. With a brutality offset only by the elegance and subtlety of Svit's writing. Con Brio - like Death in Venice before it - dramatises the ruinous consequences of sexual obsession.

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Review:

"Con Brio explores the different ways men and women experience love, desire, absolute devotion, and the mystery each has for the other" Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde; "Con Brio consumes us like a bout of fever...Disconcerting and brilliant. Give it to your best friend" Elle

Book Description:

'Con Brio consumes us like a bout of fever... Disconcerting and brilliant. Give it to your best friend' - Elle

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1860468578
• ISBN 13: 9781860468575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176