Black Waltz
Patrícia Melo author Clifford E Landers translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:7th Nov '05
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From the celebrated author of Inferno and The Killer A story of obsessive love, jealousy, sex and psychoanalysis
Jealousy - overpowering, beyond the reach of reason, Othello-like - is the focus of this latest work by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writersA successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in Sao Paulo is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her life because, unlike her, he is not Jewish; and that she will be unfaithful to him. Jealousy - beyond the reach of reason - haunts his every moment, gnawing at his trust, his love, and ultimately his sanity. Black Waltz opens a fascinating and harrowing window into a mind bordering on paranoia and psychosis.
'A white-knuckle read' Guardian 'Melo's follow-up to the acclaimed Inferno is a cruelly focused, finely balanced and brilliantly written study. Her great achievement is to make what, on the surface, is a simple tale of a man's jealousy and mid-life doubt, into a swelling epic of grubby emotion and deep, empty despair' Sunday Herald 'The study of a man's disintegration into pathological jealousy ... her style is elastic ... the novel speeds along' Times Literary Supplement 'The terrible tale of a conductor whose jealousy of his younger wife teeters into paranoia' Evening Standard
ISBN: 9780747576594
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224 pages
Revised edition