num_pages: 414
description: Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 700,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The City of Falling Angels
titlecomplete: The City of Falling Angels
genres: Mystery, True Crime, History, Crime, Historical, Italy, Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 16259
places: Italy, Venice
publisher: The Penguin Press