num_pages: 256
description: Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi . • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." — San Francisco ChronicleLucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again.Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.
language: English
title: In Lucia's Eyes
titlecomplete: In Lucia's Eyes
characters: Giacomo Casanova
genres: Roman, Historical, Italy, Novels, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 12487
places: Italy, Netherlands, Amsterdam
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Libris Literatuurprijs, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: De Inktaap
publisher: Vintage