Лучшие книги Мишель Ловрик

Кожа Марчеллы излучает неземную чистоту - и при виде нее почва уходит из-под ног у молодого врача Санто, а старший брат девушки предпочел бы пополнить таким нежным переплетом свою зловещую коллекцию книг из человеческой кожи. Любовь девушки к Санто он представляет как одержимость, чтобы заживо сгноить ее в сумасшедшем доме или монастыре. Спасти ее может только смерть - и ее возлюбленный знает, что делать!

XVIII век. Блистательная Венеция. Юная аристократка не представляла, что этот прекрасный город может стать для нее адом. Родители отправили ее в монастырь, а монашки... продали богатому англичанину. Он был нежен и страстен, девушка забеременела и... оказалась один на один со своими бедами. Ей сказали, что новорожденный умер, возлюбленный бросил ее, монашки жестоко наказали за попытку бегства... Прошли годы. Теперь Мимосина — прославленная актриса и... безжалостная шпионка. Но однажды ее сердце дрогнуло. Король контрабандистов Валентин Грейтрейкс своей любовью, словно волшебным эликсиром, исцелил ее разбитое сердце. Однако его юная…

Мишель Ловрик - автор, популярный не только в Европе, но и хорошо известный отечественному читателю по романам "Книга из человеческой кожи" и "Венецианский эликсир". Необычная, завораживающая, построенная на контрастах манера повествования, чувственные метафоры, яркие характеры, захватывающий сюжет - вот отличительные черты ее произведений, в том числе и того, которое вы держите в руках.
Здесь вы снова встретитесь с любимым персонажем Мишель Ловрик, очарованию которого действительно невозможно сопротивляться, - с удивительной, таинственной, полной неги и роскоши Венецией. Роман "Венецианский бархат" застает ее в пору расцвета, в наивысшей точке ее великолепия.

Venice is in peril. Bajamonte Tiepolo is back, and his baddened magic has spread across the globe, from the island of Hooroo in the South Pacific, all the way to London, where Queen Victoria lies dying.

Now two cities need saving by Teo, the Undrowned Child, and Renzo, the Studious Son of a Venetian prophecy. Time is running out as they try to unravel the mysteries threatening London and Venice. They meet mermaids and mourning children, giant squid, a talking bulldog, and the delectable, deceptive Miss Uish. But who is a friend, and who an enemy?

The book of human skin is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it.
There are people who are a disease, you know.
13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister's ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save her...

For readers of Perfume and Alias Grace, and inspired by a true story, this is the glorious, grubby and magnificent tale of the rise and fall of the seven long-haired Swiney sisters

I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . .

The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, balsamic lozenges, and candied fruit in the humid swoop of the orchard branches whenever we went . . .

I married Christ in a delirium spun of sweetened wine. I was only bitter later, when I saw little girls dreambound in the smell of almonds and burnt sugar in the orchard. For by then of course I knew full well . . . that God did not make such trees.

So begins The Remedy, a lush and riveting new work of historical fiction by the author of the The Floating Book.

Set against the vivid, haunting backdrops of eighteenth-century Venice and London, The Remedy weaves together the stories of three mesmerizing characters: Venetian actress Mimosina Dolcezza -- snatched from a convent as a young woman, employed as an actress and agente provocatrice by powerful and shadowy European power brokers; the dark prince of London's medical underworld, the roguish Valentine Greatrakes; and the strange, peevish child-woman Pevenche, whose fate and identity are at the heart of the book's mystery. The love affair between Mimosina and Valentine begins in the wake of a murder and tumbles forward based on dangerous secrets and elaborate lies. As the lovers unravel the tangled truths of each other's pasts, The Remedy lures us along a path from the dank environs of London's Bankside to the vibrant streets of Venice, through playhouses and brothels, convents and crypts, with a sensual eye for detail that breathes heady, intoxicating life into the era.

Long-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, The Remedy is scholarly, seductive, and teeming with Rabelaisian characters -- a gorgeous novel that will keep the reader aching with suspense and haunted long after the final page is turned.

A sensuous and intelligent historical novel set against the magic of Venice A moving love story featuring two of the greatest lovers the world has ever known -- Casanova and Byron -- and introducing a third: Cecilia Cornaro

An exquisitely imagined fantasy novel about a girl who can see history with her touch. Set on the canals of Venice, from an award-winning author, this is a perfect book for fans of Frances Hardinge and Jennifer Bell for 9+ readers.
Twelve-year-old Aurelia Bon can see what happened in a place by merely pressing her fingertips up against the walls. So when young boys start disappearing around an old palace, Aurelia must use her ability to find out what has happened, before the boys of Venice disappear forever...
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