{"product_id":"2940169088410","title":"Vienna Nocturne: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Paula McLain's \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/i\u003e and Laura Moriarty's \u003ci\u003eThe Chaperone\u003c\/i\u003e comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. \u003ci\u003eVienna Nocturne\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures-a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a young English soprano, Anna Storace, who was his muse-in prose as spirited, timeless, and touching as Mozart's greatest compositions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late-eighteenth-century London, a young girl takes her first singing lessons with a mysterious castrato in exile. Her life is forever changed. Having learned everything he can teach her, Anna leaves behind all the security and familiarity of home and journeys to Naples and Venice to struggle and triumph in Italy's greatest opera houses. Only sixteen, she finds herself in an intoxicating world of theaters, nobility, and vice, overwhelmed by her newfound freedom and fame. Her first bitter experience of love and heartbreak inevitably follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a few years, Anna is invited to sing in Vienna, the City of Music, by the emperor himself. There, in a teasing game of theft and play, Anna first meets Mozart, a young virtuoso pianist and striving, prodigiously talented composer. They are matched in intellect and talent, and an immediate and undeniable charge occurs between the two, despite both being married to others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her star rises in Vienna and her personal life deteriorates, Anna experiences an ultimate crisis. During this trying time, her only light is Mozart: his energy, his determination for her, and his art. She, in turn, becomes his hope and inspiration, and his joy, as he writes for her some of his most exquisite and enduring arias-music that will live on as his masterworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich in historical detail and beautifully wrought by Vivien Shotwell, an author who is herself an opera singer, \u003ci\u003eVienna Nocturne\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatic tour de force of a woman's struggle to find love and fame in an eighteenth-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123019530480,"sku":"2940169088410","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169088410_p0.jpg?v=1763671702","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169088410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}