Vienna Passion by Lilian Faschinger
Vienna Passion is a novel of love, mistresses and music. It tells the story of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. Rosa's story is interleaved with another woman's tentative romance: that of Magnolia, a young New Yorker, and her singing-teacher in Vienna. Despite her lover's hypochondria and mother-fixation, however, Magnolia is just as much her own woman as Rosa ever was. More so, indeed, than either woman could ever have imagined.
'Hugely readable and..delicious...bizarre, baroque and ironic' Scotland on Sunday'A storyteller of vivid, almost fairy-tale imagination' Independent'Addictive...delightfully arch [and] shocking' The Times
Lilian Faschinger was born in Austria in 1950 and holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Graz where she worked for seventeen years. She has received literary prizes both for her own writing and for her achievements as a translator of such authors as Janet Frame, Gertrude Stein and Paul Bowler. Her debut UK novel, Magdalena the sinner, achieved widespread critical acclaim, with Shaun Whiteside's translation winning the 1997 Schlegel-Tieck Prize..
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747258506 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747258503 |
| Title | Vienna Passion |
| Author | Lilian Faschinger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2001-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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