by John Berendt · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483463338
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«La ciudad de los ángeles caídos» is John Berendt's non-fiction chronicle, published by Debolsillo in hardcover (368 pages, in Spanish).
Following the success of «Medianoche en el jardín del bien y del mal», John Berendt arrives in Venice days after the fire that destroyed the Gran Teatro La Fenice in 1996. Between reportage and travel writing, the author investigates the disaster and portrays the city with its canals, alleyways, palaces and singular characters.
The original title is «The City of Falling Angels», translated by Cruz Rodríguez Juiz; it belongs to Debolsillo's Best Seller collection.
For readers of non-fiction, true crime and travel literature, as well as for followers of «Medianoche en el jardín del bien y del mal».
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.
