Athena. - Hardcover

Banville, John

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Synopsis

Der Kunstexperte Morrow ist besessen – allerdings nicht von einem Bild, sondern von einer Frau. Von der geheimnisvollen Schönen mit dem schwarzen Haar und der blassen Haut, die er im halb verfallenen Haus seines Auftraggebers getroffen hat. Eigentlich wurde er gerufen, um einige Gemälde auf ihre Echtheit zu prüfen. Doch bald ist Morrow im Bann jener Dame gefangen, die er nur A. nennt. Mit ihr gerät er immer tiefer in eine Welt, in der alles Illusion zu sein scheint – falsch und zugleich faszinierend, wie die Kunstwerke, die er begutachten soll

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From the Inside Flap

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtaking style."--Boston Globe.
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About the Author

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn , Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter (which was filmed for Channel 4), Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award), Ghosts, The Untouchable, Eclipse , Shroud and The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

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