Garden Of Venus - Softcover
Garden of Venus is the story of an extraordinary life woveninto the fabric of Eastern European history. A saga that sweeps from the olivegroves of Greece to the bazaars of Istanbul, from a draughty Berlin palace tothe inner chambers of Marie Antoinette’s gilded Parisian boudoir, this is thelife of a girl―daughter of a Greek peasant―who became a courtesan, courtier,countess and confidante to tsars, queens and kings.
Based on the life of the famous and beloved courtier andcountess La Belle Phanariote, Stachniak’s novel is brilliantly written andalive with unforgettable characters. Garden of Venus is analluring, sensuous and exotic saga from a winner of the Amazon.com/Books inCanada First Novel Award.
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EVA STACHNIAK was born in Wroclaw, Poland, arriving in Canada in 1981 on an English scholarship to McGill University. Her first short story, "Marble Heroes," was published by the Antigonish Review in the summer of 1994, and her debut novel, Necessary Lies, won the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2000. Her fiction is the result of her fascination with the ways history and culture shape our lives. Eva Stachniak lives in Toronto.
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0006395430
- ISBN 13 9780006395430
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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