by John Berendt · Planeta Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727311842
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«A Cidade dos Anjos Caídos» is John Berendt's non-fiction chronicle of Venice, published by Planeta Editora in paperback (392 pages, in Portuguese).
After the fire at Teatro La Fenice, John Berendt travels through Venice to portray a city of refined façades where scandal, corruption and a select society of artists and aristocrats coexist. Between chronicle and intrigue, he reveals secrets of old and new inhabitants, from Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim, mixing reality and rumors.
The work was originally published in English as «The City of Falling Angels» in 2005; the Portuguese translation appeared in 2006.
For readers of narrative non-fiction and urban chronicles, interested in Venice, art and the inner workings of high society.
John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996.
