GOYA'S GLASS

In her first novel to be translated into English, Prague-born writer Zgustova masterfully reimagines the true stories of three inimi table womenthe Duchess of Alba, the lover and muse of 18th-century Spanish painter Francisco Goya/ Boema Nemcová, a Czech writer a nd nationalist living in the 19th-century Austro-Hungarian empire/ and Nina Berberova, a Russian exile residing in Paris during the former's revolution. Readers learn of the Duchess' passionate encounters with Goya through her 1st-person accounts. Likewise, throug h intimate ...[Leer más]