by John Berendt · Penguin Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781594200618
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«City of Falling Angels» is John Berendt's nonfiction chronicle, published by Penguin Pr in paperback (414 pages, in English).
After the fire that destroyed Venice's Teatro La Fenice in 1996, John Berendt settles in the city and portrays its inhabitants while the origin of the fire is investigated. Among artists, expatriates and Venetian circles, the chronicle shows the disputes over the theatre's reconstruction and the contradictions of life in Venice.
Published in 2005, this book is the follow-up to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a title cited on the cover.
A read for those who enjoy travel chronicles, cultural history and portraits of cities with peculiar characters.
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.
