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In Lucia?s Eyes is a rich and vibrant evocation of a time past, and an emotionally daring story of the individual spirit?s transformation by love.
Knopf
November 2005
Featuring: Casanova; Lucia
256 pages ISBN: 1400044642 Hardcover
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Historical
Following his hugely acclaimed debut, The Two Hearts of
Kwasi Boachi (�Fascinatingly ambitious . . . Haunting�
--The New York Times), Arthur Japin�s magnificently
imagined second novel takes us into the most rarified and
the most sordid realms of eighteenth-century Europe in the
company of an extraordinary woman.
She is a servant
girl in an Italian manor house, educated by her lascivious
lord, engaged to a young man by the name of Giacomo�and
suddenly disfigured by the pox. Fleeing in shame and without
warning, piercing the heart of her beloved, Lucia faces a
bewildering new world alone. She will move across Europe for
sixteen years�from Naples to Venice, Paris, and
Amsterdam�working as a housekeeper, a lady�s companion, and
finally, as a much-sought-after courtesan. In salons, opera
boxes, and boudoirs, her curiosity and intelligence are
nurtured by the revolutionary new ideas of the
Enlightenment, passionately debated in spheres of society
she has never known before. But not until her accidental
reunion with Giacomo Casanova�now the tragic figure of
infamous legend�will the lessons of her astonishing journey
be revealed to her, and with them, her truest self.
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