Conversations in Bolzano

It is midnight, 31 October 1758, and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld.

Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes bis way to Bolzano – the small village where he was dealt a cruel hand. A place full of memories, Bolzano was the scene of) a moonlit duel fought with the Duke of Parma – when Casanova and he were both in pursuit of the beguiling Francesca. Casanova’s quest was lost and he was left with three scars above his heart ands one option: he could live only on the condition he never saw Francesca again. But now Casanova is back, having secured a loan from an old friend, and is determined to win this time – whilst the Duke has an offer Casanova simply cannot refuse and which just might spell his undoing.

Just as Embers is an extraordinary story of friendship, fidelity and pride, Conversations in Bolzano is a glorious novel about the meaning of love, betrayal, possession and the consequences of following desire at any cost.