My Venice and Other Essays

Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate plots and gripping narratives, but for her insight into the culture, politics, family-life, and history of Venice, one of the world's most-treasured cities, and Leon's home for over thirty years. Readers love how Leon opens the doors to a private Venice, beyond the reach of the millions of international tourists who delight in the city's canals, food, and art every year.

My Venice and Other Essays will be a treat for Leon's many fans, as well as for lovers of Italy and La Serenissima. For many years, Leon, who is a perennial #1 bestseller in Germany, has written essays for European publications. Collected here are the best of these: over fifty funny, charming, passionate, and insightful essays that range from battles over garbage in the canals to the troubles with rehabbing Venetian real estate. She shares episodes from her life in Venice, explores her love of opera, and recounts tales from in and around her country house in the mountains. With pointed observations and humor, she also explores her family history and former life in New Jersey, and the idea of the Italian man.

Author: Donna Leon
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780802120366


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2013 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2013
Library Journal 09/15/2013 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2013
Booklist 12/15/2013 pg. 7
New York Times Book Review 12/08/2013 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 12/27/2013
Library Journal 07/01/2013

About the Author
Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon was born in New Jersey and has lived in Venice for thirty years.