Synopses & Reviews
In his debut novel, Golding makes sense of the current AIDS crisis as he envisions another time and place transformed by a fatal horror. Take a journey back six centuries to a secluded island in the Venice lagoon--a wondrous place where superstition reigns and life and death are created by magical equations.
Synopsis
This mesmerising narrative iridescent with the colours of medieval Italy, is steeped in both authentic details and magical realism. It creates a long ago place that has chilling familiarity.