num_pages: 384
description: Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of The Divine Comedy , written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all. Some will find it offensive; others will declare it transcendent; it is certain to be the most ragingly debated novel of the decade.
language: English
title: In the Hand of Dante
titlecomplete: In the Hand of Dante
genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Books About Books
ratings_count: 940
publisher: Back Bay Books