The Garden of Angels

The Garden of Angels
David Hewson
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 448pg
18 Aug 2022 UK
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9781838857707
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At his beloved Nonno Paolo' s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice' s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he' s waited his whole life to share. When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week' s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . . Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather' s life: when Paolo' s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city' s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can' t stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
Readers will be gripped and hold fast until the shocking end * Publishers Weekly on Devil' s Fjord * Outstanding * Booklist on The Savage Shore * Readers of Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin will find this gripping * Library Journal on The Flood * Hewson spins an engrossing tale * Booklist on The Flood * Hewson' s own elegant prose style perfectly captures the mood of the story . . . A splendid book * Booklist Starred Review of The Killing *
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, The Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels, including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been published in fifteen languages, and his Amsterdam-based series featuring detective Pieter Vos. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing. He lives near Canterbury in Kent.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838857707
Published: 18 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 297g
Pages: 448

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