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September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Giulia; Maestra Humilità
334 pages ISBN: 1477847782 EAN: 9781477847787 Kindle: B00JMJYBM8 Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Historical
By the author of the acclaimed Passion Blue, a Kirkus
Reviews Best Teen Book of 2012 and “a rare, rewarding,
sumptuous exploration of artistic passion,” comes a
fascinating companion novel. Artistically brilliant, Giulia is blessed—or cursed—with a
spirit’s gift: she can hear the mysterious singing of the
colors as she creates them in the convent workshop of
Maestra Humilità. It’s here that Giulia, forced into the
convent against her will, has found unexpected happiness and
rekindled her passion to become a painter—an impossible
dream for any woman in fifteenth-century Italy. But when a dying Humilità bequeaths Giulia her most prized
possession—the secret formula for the luminously beautiful
paint called Passion blue—Giulia realizes she’s in danger
from those who have long coveted the famous color. Faced
with the prospect of a life in the convent barred from
painting as punishment for keeping Humilità’s secret, Giulia
is struck by a desperate idea: What if she disguises herself
as a boy? Could she make her way to Venice and find work as
an artist’s apprentice? Along with the truth of who she is, Giulia carries more
dangerous secrets: the exquisite voices of her paint colors
and the formula for Humilità’s Passion blue. And Venice, she
discovers, with its gilded palazzos and masked balls, has
secrets of its own. Trapped in her false identity in this
dream-like place where reality and reflection are easily
confused, and where art and ambition, love and deception
hover like dense fog, can Giulia find her way? This stunning, compelling novel explores timeless themes of
love and illusion, gender and identity as it asks, What does
it mean to risk everything to pursue your passion?
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