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Mesmerized
Alissa Walser
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Description for Mesmerized
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Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical patients, Franz Anton Mesmer is developing a series of controversial cure-alls for body and mind. When asked to help restore the sight of a blind musical prodigy sponsored by the Empress herself, he senses that fame, even immortality, is within his grasp. But what if the girl's blindness is the source of her fragile talent? Mesmer knows he cannot treat her without first gaining her trust: with his methods already ... Read more
Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical patients, Franz Anton Mesmer is developing a series of controversial cure-alls for body and mind. When asked to help restore the sight of a blind musical prodigy sponsored by the Empress herself, he senses that fame, even immortality, is within his grasp. But what if the girl's blindness is the source of her fragile talent? Mesmer knows he cannot treat her without first gaining her trust: with his methods already ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051028
SKU
V9780857051028
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About Alissa Walser
Alissa Walser is a writer, translator and painter living in Frankfurt am Main. She is the author of three volumes of short stories, and for her first novel Mesmerized she was awarded the Spycher Literaturpreis in 2010.
Reviews for Mesmerized
'A beautiful, unpretentious exercise in the language of the mind' Michael Mills, Buzz.
Michael Mills, Buzz
'Subtle and finely wrought ... I was intrigued, captivated' Paul Dunn, The Times.
The Times
Michael Mills, Buzz
'Subtle and finely wrought ... I was intrigued, captivated' Paul Dunn, The Times.
The Times