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Mesmerized

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Zusatztext 'Subtle and finely wrought ... I was intrigued! captivated' Paul Dunn! The Times. Informationen zum Autor Alissa Walser is a writer, translator and painter living in Frankfurt am Main. She is the author of three volumes of short stories, and for her first novel Mesmerized she was awarded the Spycher Literaturpreis in 2010. Klappentext Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical patients, Franz Anton Mesmer is developing a series of controversial cure-alls for body and mind. When asked to help restore the sight of a blind musical prodigy sponsored by the Empress herself, he senses that fame, even immortality, is within his grasp. But what if the girl's blindness is the source of her fragile talent? Mesmer knows he cannot treat her without first gaining her trust: with his methods already the subject of salacious gossip, will their intimacy result in scandal? Zusammenfassung A luminous, sensual tale of an episode in the lives of Franz Anton Mesmer and a blind musical prodigy.

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'A beautiful, unpretentious exercise in the language of the mind' Michael Mills, Buzz. Michael Mills, Buzz

Product details

Authors Jamie Bulloch, Alissa Walser, Walser Alissa
Assisted by Jamie Bulloch (Translation), Bulloch Jamie (Translation)
Publisher Quercus Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 06.06.2013
 
EAN 9780857051028
ISBN 978-0-85705-102-8
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 131 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

austria, FICTION / Historical, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Fiction in translation, Fiction - Historical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Western Classical Music

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