A prize-winning international bestseller, this gripping story by Francesca Duranti follows Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, on his obsessive quest to find a lost German novel -- The House on Moon Lake -- after he reads a reference to it in the book of a renowned literary critic. Fabrizio's quest and its solution transform his life as he searches for the reality behind the events in the book and its author. As Fabrizio is drawn into making up a story which slowly -- and intolerably -- becomes fact, he ...
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A prize-winning international bestseller, this gripping story by Francesca Duranti follows Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, on his obsessive quest to find a lost German novel -- The House on Moon Lake -- after he reads a reference to it in the book of a renowned literary critic. Fabrizio's quest and its solution transform his life as he searches for the reality behind the events in the book and its author. As Fabrizio is drawn into making up a story which slowly -- and intolerably -- becomes fact, he watches as his own creation begins to overpower him. By the time Fabrizio realizes the ramifications of the myth he has crafted, the love story of the original dissolves into a horror story of the present.
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New York. 1986. September 1986. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With A Piece Missing From The Top Back. 0394550374. Translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. 183 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Wendell Minor. keywords: Literature Translated Italy Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This prize-winning novel, a sudden, stunning success when first published in Italian, is the story of a story-and of twin temptations: opportunities and obscurities, truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. The young man at its center is heir to a pleasant past, hostage to an indefinite present, and an adventurer into an oddly veiled future. Garrone is a critical, insecure intellectual who decides to rescue himself from obscurity by translating an obscure novel, The impact of his discovery brings recognitions, rewards, and menace. Garrone finds himself the almost willing victim of a character he had thought to be fictional. A curious love story has become a haunting ghost story. In the end, Garrone must choose among loyalties, attractions, and compulsions-loyalty to the gifted young publisher whose friendship has repaid them both; attraction to his beautiful Italian lover; the compulsion of a puzzling German woman of whose reality he is no longer certain. This is, wrote Mario Soldati in Corriere della Sera, ‘an enchanting story. we share in complicated maneuvers, surprising reversals, changing discoveries which are fascinating. ' FRANCESCA DURANTI lives in Milan, Italy, where she contributes to Il Giornale newspaper and is at work on a new novel. For THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE she has been awarded the Bagutta Prize, the Martina Franca Prize, and the City of Milan Prize. She has a law degree born the University 0f Pisa, and she has translated novels from French, German and English. inventory #12905.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Remainder mark, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good dustwrapper with crease on front flap. A novel.
