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Cry to heaven

Novel about the castrati of 18th century Italy. One of the sopranos, son of an aristocratic father who castrates him to remove him from the family's line of succession, waits years to destroy the person who ordered his mutilation and disinheritance.

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  • "Cry to heaven"@pl
  • "Cry to heaven"@it

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  • "Novel about the castrati of 18th century Italy. One of the sopranos, son of an aristocratic father who castrates him to remove him from the family's line of succession, waits years to destroy the person who ordered his mutilation and disinheritance."@en
  • "They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!"@en
  • "They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!"
  • ""Ann Rice nos conduce en un viaje en el tiempo al fascinante mundo de los castrati del siglo XVIII, los hombres a los que se emasculaba en la infancia para dotarlos de voces de soprano. Famosos en las cortes reales y en los teatros de la ópera de toda Europa, eran adulados por sus cualidades vocales pero también se los rechazaba como pertenecientes a un tercer sexo."--P. [4] of cover."
  • "Eighteenth-century Naples provides the setting for the pain, fears, resentments, desires, and triumphs of peasant-born Guido Maffeo and patrician-born Tonio Treschi, two castrati--mentor and angel-voiced student--who strive passionately to live full lives."@en
  • "Rǐmpression d'une traduction parue chez Mazarine, en 1984. Dans l'Italie du milieu du 18e sic̈le, passionně d'opřa, l'amiti ̌puis la haine de deux castrats, l'un chanteur et l'autre compositeur. Rien n'est tu de leurs sensuelles aventures. [SDM]."
  • "In the 18th century world of the castrated male sopranos, Tonio is the student of Guido who lost his own voice at the age of eighteen."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Horror tales"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść historyczna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Musical fiction"@en
  • "Musical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Cry to heaven"
  • "Cry to heaven"@en
  • "Un grido fino al cielo"
  • "Un grido fino al cielo"@it
  • "La voix des anges"
  • "Un grito al cielo"@es
  • "Grido fino al cielo"
  • "Un grito al cielo"
  • "La Voix des anges"
  • "Cry to Heaven : a novel"@en
  • "Falsetto ; Roman"
  • "Falsetto Roman"
  • "La voix des anges : roman"
  • "Falsetto : Roman"
  • "Falsetto"
  • "CRY TO HEAVEN"
  • "Плач к небесам"
  • "Chore para o céu"
  • "Krzyk w niebiosa"@pl
  • "Krzyk w niebiosa"
  • "La voix des anges roman"
  • "Un Grito al cielo"
  • "Plach k nebesam"
  • "Cry to heaven : a novel"@en
  • "Cry to Heaven"@en
  • "Cry to Heaven"

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