The Moon’s Confidant
The Moon’s Confidant
Niklas RådströmThe one holding the pen in Niklas Rådström’s The Moon’s Confidant is Lorenzo Da Ponte—librettist for Mozart’s three most famous operas—born Jewish, ordained a Catholic priest, married and father of six, a poet, gambler and adventurer, a friend of Giacomo Casanova, court poet in Vienna, man of the theatre and printer in London, grocer and wine producer in Philadelphia, and the first professor of Italian at the University of New York.
Niklas Rådström’s novel—his first in nearly a decade—is the story of an almost unbelievably rich destiny in which Mozart plays a central role, but it is also a meditation on music, love, creation, and what we make of our lives.
The Moon’s Confidant marks a magnificent return to the novel by one of our foremost literary storytellers.
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German: Osburg
