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Triana's grief is deep and almost boundless. Death has marked her, and taken her husband. Now only the music in her dreams can carry her from night to night. And now, into those dreams, into those nights, comes Stefan, the restless, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat.
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In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Stefan Stefanovsky: "He was tall and gaunt, but not at all in an unattractive way. His black hair was unkempt and rock musician long, with two braids tied back to keep it from his face, and I remember I liked the way it hung down his back as he turned around. I remember his coat on account of that- an old dusty black coat, terribly dusty, as though he'd been sleeping somewhere in the dust." -Triana's description of Stefan when she first sees him. Stefan is a dashing and mysterious ghost skilled at playing the violin. Triana first saw him a day before Karl, her husband, died.
- Triana: "My face was a kindness on the part of God, but not remarkably so. It is typically Irish-German, square, and my eyes are large and brown and my hair, cut blunt just above my eyebrows- bangs, if you will- disguises my worst feature, a low forehead. 'Such a pretty face' they say of dumpy women like me." Triana is a 54-year old woman suffering from the recent death of her husband, Karl, and blames herself for several events in her past. She is enchanted by Stefan and his ability to play the violin.
- Karl: Karl is Triana's second husband who died from AIDS. The first few chapters of the story reveal how Triana grieves over Karl's recent death. He is descended from a wealthy German family. Karl had been working on a manuscript about St. Sebastian but he died before ever completing it.
- Katrinka: Add a description of this character.
- Faye
- Rosalind
- Martin
- Lev
- Grady Dubosson
- Glenn
- Beethoven
- Roz
- Lily
- Paganini
- Susan
- Althea
- Antonio
- Lacomb
- Vera
- Lucrece
- Berthe
- Mozart
- Mariana
- Chelsea
- Frau Weber
- Mrs. Wolfstan
- Dr. Guidry
- Oscar
- Anna Belle
- Hans
- Isaac Stern
- Miss Becker
- Felice
Quotes edit
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“"Father, Mother, Lily, give me your bones. Give me the grave. Let's take Karl down into it with us. What matter to us, those who are dead, that he died of some virulent disease; we are all here in the moist earth together; we are dead together."”
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“"You want a highborn ghost out of novels charged with significant romance. You dream."”
Triana
First Sentence edit
What I seek to do here perhaps cannot be done in words.
Table of Contents edit
Proem
Chapters 1 - 21
Themes & Symbolism edit
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: US
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0345425308
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: US
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0345425308
Page Count: 384
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3568.I265 V56 1997
- Dewey: 813.54
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Rice, Anne
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Rice, Anne
- Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Family Saga
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
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