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Venetian Vespers

Yazan: John Banville
Seslendiren: Luke Thompson
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEA
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025

Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . .
Winter 1899, and strange things are afoot. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed.

Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly
otherworldly occurrences, which exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?

'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN
'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DeLILLO
'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' IRISH TIMES
'One of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG
'Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance.' NEW YORK TIMES ©2025 John Banville (P)2025 Faber & Faber Gothic Historical Horror Mystery Duygusal olarak çekici Samimi
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Inscruitable and too fond of sexual violence. Rather boring, Too bad, since the plot has potential.

Too oblique

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Beautifully written, as always, by John Banville and well read by Luke Thompson. The cast of unreliable, exotic, and generally unattractive characters dance around each other in a fin de siecle damp and gloomy Venice until the unsettling denouement.

Intrigue & deception in Venice

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Beautifully evocative writing and an engaging mystery, brilliantly read by the narrator. Really brings Venice to life and creates a palpable sense of tension throughout.

Atmospheric take, very well narrated.

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Banville’s Venetian Vespers is a taut, beautifully constructed study of vanity, guilt, and collapse. A honeymoon to Venice becomes a descent into private ruin, where every glance, gesture, and architectural reflection carries the weight of foreboding. Long before the denouement, the narrator is trapped inside his own consciousness, circling humiliation and failure, unable to distinguish reflection from reality.

The novel’s architecture is flawless. Banville builds tension through precision, not pace. Foreshadowing works like music. Motifs recur, phrases echo, and meaning gathers quietly until the final movement resolves what’s been trembling beneath the surface all along. The prose has the precision of poetry, but none of its sentimentality. It’s Banville at his most disciplined; haunting, meticulous, and quietly shattering. The performance, by Luke Thompson, conveys all of that flawlessly. It is a spellbinding production.

Like McGahern, Banville writes about the imprisonment of the self, but where McGahern searches for grace, Banville finds hollowness. Like The Book Of Evidence, Venetian Vespers is a confession without absolution. it ranks among his best works.

A confession with no absolution

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I. picked this book because of the Author's reputation for great writing.
However, the lead character presents as a Concieted, Gullible, Fool, deuped into a marriage by his wife & her co-conspirators.
Annoying to see his arrogance and sense of entitlement lead him blindly from one daft mistake to the next.
He deserved his fate.
Puzzling that John Banville would write such a story?

A Venetian meander

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