by John Berendt · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439720102
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«La ciudad de los ángeles caídos» is the non-fiction work by John Berendt, published by Mondadori in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
John Berendt, author of «Medianoche en el jardín del bien y del mal», ventures into Venice after the fire that devastated the Teatro La Fenice. Amid palaces, canals and alleyways, the writer traces the causes of the blaze and portrays the peculiar inhabitants of a city that jealously guards its secrets.
Published in 2006. The original title is «The City of Falling Angels». Translation by Cruz Rodríguez Juiz. Literatura Mondadori collection.
For readers of true-crime reportage and stories set in Venice.
John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996.
