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The city of falling angels

READ BY THE AUTHOR INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.

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  • "本書主要探索鳳凰歌劇院失火事件,這個具有175年歷史的威尼斯地標,有五齣韋瓦第的歌劇在此首演,作者於書中深入探討這座義大利古城賴以生存的人文傳統."
  • "READ BY THE AUTHOR INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW."@en
  • "Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city--while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. He introduces us to a rich cast of characters, Venetian and expatriate, in a tale full of atmosphere and surprise which reveals a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif, adding elements of chaos, corruption, and crime and contributing to the ever-mounting suspense. --From publisher description."
  • "On the evening of January 29, 1996, a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice Opera House. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum city while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the first family of American expatriates that loses possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others-stool pigeons, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, believers in Martians, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James."@en
  • "Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with local figures learned about the region's rich cultural history."
  • "Ben shu zhu yao tan suo Feng huang ge ju yuan shi huo shi jian, zhe ge ju you 175 nian li shi de Wei ni si di biao, you wu chu Wei wa di de ge ju zai ci shou yan, zuo zhe yu shu zhong shen ru tan tao zhe zuo Yi da li gu cheng lai yi sheng cun de ren wen chuan tong."
  • "Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city--while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. He introduces us to a rich cast of characters, Venetian and expatriate, in a tale full of atmosphere and surprise which reveals a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif, adding elements of chaos, corruption, and crime and contributing to the ever-mounting suspense.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city--while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. He introduces us to a rich cast of characters, Venetian and expatriate, in a tale full of atmosphere and surprise which reveals a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif, adding elements of chaos, corruption, and crime and contributing to the ever-mounting suspense.--From publisher description."
  • "A unique tour behind the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city. Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants."@en
  • "Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting."@en
  • "Venice is a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice is a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble, foundations shift, marble ornaments fall, even as efforts to preserve them are underway. Berendt becomes a kind of detective, inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city, while gradually revealing the truth about a fire that destroyed the historic Fenice Opera House."
  • "The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants. It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice-a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective-inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the first family of American expatriates that loses possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, partygoing Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning one another's motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others-stool pigeons, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, believers in Martians, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James."
  • "This is a portrait of Venice - contradictory, beautiful, fascinating, a place like no other. It is a first-hand account of the city's struggle to recover from the fire that destroyed the famous Fenice opera house, and a relentless investigation of the lies, corruption and scandal which the disastrous blaze exposed. But most of all, this is a tribute to a people. It is the inhabitants of Venice who are the real stars of this story, from local aristocracy to eccentric street hawkers, from millionaire art collector Peggy Guggenheim to the charismatic Rat Man of Treviso. Together they form a cast of weird, wonderful, utterly unique characters - the beating heart of a truly memorable book.--From cover back."@en
  • "The story opens in 1996, when a fire destroyed the historic Fenice Opera House. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif that runs throughout the book, revealing the city of Venice in all its magic, mystery, and decadence."@en

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  • "CD"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"

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  • "Mesto padajočih angelov"@sl
  • "The city of falling angels"
  • "The city of falling angels"@en
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  • "추락하는천사들의도시 = The city of falling angels"
  • "Miasto spadających aniołów"@pl
  • "Tian shi zhui luo de cheng shi = The city of falling angels"
  • "天使墜落的城市"
  • "The City Of Falling Angels : a Venice Story"@en
  • "Venetsia : pudonneiden enkelten kaupunki"@fi
  • "Fallande änglars stad"@sv
  • "Ch'urak hanŭn ch'ŏnsadŭl ŭi tosi = The city of falling angels"
  • "ʻIr ha-malʼakhim ha-noflim"
  • "City of falling angels"@en
  • "La Ciudad de los ángeles caídos"
  • "Die Stadt der fallenden Engel [Roman]"
  • "天使坠落的城市"
  • "Tianshi zhuiluo de chengshi = The city of falliing angels"
  • "Die Stadt der fallenden Engel Roman"
  • "City of falling angels [LP]"
  • "天使坠落的城市 = The city of falling angels"
  • "Die Stadt der fallenden Engel"
  • "La ciudad de los ángeles caídos"
  • "La ciudad de los ángeles caídos"@es
  • "Tian shi zhui luo de cheng shi"
  • "Die Stadt der Fallenden Engel"
  • "Stad der vallende engelen"
  • "עיר המלאכים הנופלים"
  • "Dove cadono gli angeli : Venezia e altri misteri"
  • "Dove cadono gli angeli : Venezia e altri misteri"@it
  • "The City of Falling Angels"@en
  • "The City of Falling Angels"
  • "עיר המלאכים הנופלים : [סיפור עלייתו בלהבות של בית האופרה לה פניצ'ה]"
  • "La cité des anges déchus"

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