Dimensions
141 x 40 x 223mm
Rosa Havelka is a woman of her time. From a Prague orphanage to the bedrooms of the Austro-Hungarian court, from impersonations of the Empress Sisi to imprisonment for murder, Rosa shines through the sordid glamour of fin de siecle Vienna, and makes it her own.
In her footsteps follows Magnolia Brown, a young New Yorker beginning a tentative romance with her singing-teacher in modern Vienna. Despite her lover's hypochondria and mother-fixation, Magnolia is just as much her own woman as Rosa ever was. More so, indeed, than either woman could ever have imagined.
'Vienna Passion' is a stylish, shocking and witty novel of mistresses, music, unhealthy obsessions, and a very unsentimental education.
