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Laddar... The Curse of Pietro Houdini: A Novel (urspr publ 2024; utgåvan 2024)av Derek B. Miller (Författare)
VerksinformationThe Curse of Pietro Houdini: A Novel av Derek B. Miller (2024)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller is one of those books that asks readers to wade through long lectures about art, history, literature, and philosophy to get to the plot. Pietro Houdini, a mysterious figure who rescues the main character after the death of their parents, delivers these soliloquies in the guise of stories to teach life lessons. The Curse is a WWII story, but an unusual one taking place in Italy and dealing with atypical characters doing what they need to survive. Readers willing to put in the work will be rewarded with a good book. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See. August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed "Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican," rescues Massimo and brings him up the mountain to serve as his assistant in preserving the treasures that lay within the monastery walls. But can Massimo believe what Pietro is saying, particularly when Massimo has secrets too? Who is this extraordinary man? When it becomes evident that Montecassino will soon become the front line in the war, Pietro Houdini and Massimo execute a plan to smuggle three priceless Titian paintings to safety down the mountain. They are joined by a nurse concealing a nefarious past, a café owner turned murderer, a wounded but chipper German soldier, and a pair of lovers along with their injured mule, Ferrari. Together they will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin their way through battlefields to survive, all while smuggling the Renaissance masterpieces and the bag full of ancient Greek gold they have rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans. Heartfelt, powerfully engaging, and in the tradition of City of Thieves by David Benioff, The Curse of Pietro Houdini is a work of storytelling bravado: a thrilling action-packed adventure heist, an imaginative chronicle of forgotten history, and a philosophical coming-of-age epic where a child navigates one of the most enigmatic and morally complex fronts of World War II and lives to tell the tale. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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