Queen Of The Night - Hardcover

Críticas

One doesn't so much read The Queen of the Night as one is bewitched by it (Hanya Yanagihara, author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'A Little Life')

A wild opera of a novel and the perfect summer read: swift, smart, immersive and gorgeous (Guardian)

A celebration . . . of creativity, ingenuity, endurance, mastery and grace (New York Times)

A more impressive, richly imagined novel I have not read in many years. From its heroine's first entrance, The Queen of the Night grabbed me and kept me rapt as it writhed and contorted its way through love and murder, courtesans and empresses, fates and curses (Financial Times)

A masterfully written book. Chee, just, is masterful. I loved this novel (Roxane Gay)

An epic novel, brilliantly extravagant (Vogue)

Lush and sweeping . . . A moving meditation on the transformative power of fate, art, time, and sheer survival (Publishers Weekly)

Sprawling, soaring, bawdy and plotted like a fine embroidery (National Public Radio)

It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera (New Yorker)

A night at an opera you'll wish never-ending (Helen Oyeyemi, author of 'Boy, Snow, Bird' and 'Mr. Fox')

Reseña del editor

From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as 'the fire, in my opinion, and the light', Alexander Chee's astounding epic The Queen of the Night follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned star. For readers who loved Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent.

Paris, 1882.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past.

Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her still, one wants only to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.

As Lilliet mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. In order to survive, she transformed herself from circus rider to courtesan, from empress's maid to stage ingénue,all the while weaving a web of passion and intrigue. Will the truth secure Lillet's fate - or destroy her with the secrets it reveals?

Fifteen years in the writing, The Queen of the Night is a literary tour de force that is also ferociously readable. A blazing tale of lust, ambition, betrayal and revenge, it will captivate readers right up to its final electrifying denouement.

'Epic, gorgeous, haunting' Hanya Yanagihara, Man Booker shortlisted author of A Little Life

'Astonishing' Karen Russell, New York Times best-selling author of Swamplandia

'Luminous' J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times best-selling author of Maine

'Glittering' Wall Street Journal

'Brilliantly extravagant' Vogue

'Lush and sweeping' Publishers Weekly

'Plotted like a fine embroidery' NPR

'Completely engrossing' Library Journal, STARRED

'Richly researched, ornately plotted' Kirkus, STARRED

'Dramatic, audacious and extravagant' Chicago Review of Books

ALEXANDER CHEE won a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a Contributing Editor at The New Republic. He lives in New York City.