In Lucia's Eyes (Vintage Contemporaries)

Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanovas legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucias Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

Arthur Japin was born in Haarlem in 1956. He studied theater in Amsterdam and London and spent many years acting on stage, screen, and television. His first novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, appeared in thirteen languages and is now being made into an opera and a film. He lives in Utrecht.Arthur Japins The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is available in Vintage paperback.