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Just like in his book Midnight in the garden of good and evil John Berendt gives us an impression of a city and its population. This time he picked Venice.
In 1996 the Fenice, opera house of Venice, is burnt to the ground. Berendt hears of this and sets his sails to Italy. In Venice he speaks with people who heard and saw the Fenice in flames and he is very intruiged with their stories. Who set the Fenice on fire and why does it take almost ten years to get the opera house built again?
A play about the Salem witch-hunt of 1692. We get to see what happens in communal hysteria when the daughter of reverend Parris comes back from dancing in the woods very ill. It is said that she and the other girls were met by the devil. After that everybody is accusing everybody for having something to do with the devil and witchcraft, all for different reasons. One for example is Rebecca Nurse who is a midwife and has delivered only dead babies at a family. Reason: she must be in contact with the devil.
All the accused have two options: confess, be released and return to God or not confess, keep your dignity and own truth and be hanged.
If you are not a big fan of nonfiction – like me – don’t be alarmed by the genre description. It reads like fiction: thriller, drama, wit, you’ll get all and at very high quality at that. You will read like there is no tomorrow. It is a great book!
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