Black Waltz - Softcover

Patrícia Melo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747573727 ISBN 13: 9780747573722

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

The successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in Sao Paulo, he is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her life because, unlike her, he is not Jewish; and that she is unfaithful to him. Black Waltz opens a fascinating and harrowing window into a mind bordering on paranoia and psychosis. In it the reader accompanies dark passions that presage the inexorable sundering of a relationship and lead inescapably to its unforgettable climax.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Melo is a novelist, scriptwriter and playwright. Her novels The Killer, In Praise of Lies and Inferno are all published by Bloomsbury. In 1999, Time magazine included her among the fifty 'Latin American Leaders for the New Millenium'.

Review:

'A white-knuckle read' Guardian 'Melo's follow-up to the acclaimed Inferno is a cruelly focused, finely balanced and brilliantly written study. Her great achievement is to make what, on the surface, is a simple tale of a man's jealousy and mid-life doubt, into a swelling epic of grubby emotion and deep, empty despair' Sunday Herald 'The study of a man's disintegration into pathological jealousy ... her style is elastic ... the novel speeds along' Times Literary Supplement 'The terrible tale of a conductor whose jealousy of his younger wife teeters into paranoia' Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0747573727
• ISBN 13: 9780747573722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224